Visakhapatnam: Members of the Telugu Desam legal cell submitted a memorandum to Visakhapatnam Commissioner of police Dr. A. Ravi Shankar seeking withdrawal of section 144 and other prohibitory orders in the city.
“This will help people exercise their rights to organise rallies and protests peacefully, a right guaranteed under the Indian Constitution,” legal cell vice president P.S. Naidu told the commissioner.
He pointed out that after the national president of TD and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had been arrested on September 8 in a skill development corporation scam, protests had been witnessed all over the state, country, and abroad.
However, Visakhapatnam police have imposed sections 144, 151, and 30 of police act and arrested hundreds of workers before they could organise their demonstrations peacefully.
P.S. Naidu pointed out that many TD and other leaders are being put under house arrest to prevent them from protesting. Many of them had also been mentally tortured, he alleged.
District president of the party and former Gajuwaka MLA Srinivasa Rao said Vizag police filed around 10,000 cases against at least 3,000 Telugu Desam workers ever since the arrest of Naidu on September 8.
“They filed five cases against me and put me under house arrest for many days,” he underlined.
