Nellore: Tension prevailed at YSR Congress Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy’s office following his arrest after high drama here on Saturday.
Police booked a non-bailable case against the MLA under IPC Sections 143, 149, 353 and 506 for his outburst against the inspector of Vedyapalem police station K. Narasimha Rao late on Thursday.
The legislator had lashed out at the inspector for detaining some YSRC workers after they roughed up two youths carrying out a poll survey at Vengalraonagar in Nellore on Thursday.
A team of police led by Nellore town DSP N.B.M. Murali Krishna came to Mr Sridhar Reddy’s office along with three inspectors at 10 am on Saturday to arrest the MLA.
They waited for a while as Mr Sridhar Reddy was in a press conference and informed him about the cases against him. Though the MLA followed the police, party workers present in the office attempted to block the police from taking their leader. The police had to resort to a mild lathi charge.
Wife of the legislator, Sujitha and daughter Hyndavi rushed to the office and resorted to a protest along with party men at the KV Subba Reddy Petrol Bunk Circle.
Traffic went haywire because of the dharna and police had a tough time controlling the situation. They detained the party workers and convinced the protesters to call off their protest.
