Hyderabad,
Jan 8: A tense atmosphere prevailed in the old city of Hyderabad
Tuesday following the arrest of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM)
leader Akbaruddin Owaisi for allegedly making hate speeches.
The
usually busy markets around the historic Charminar wore a near-deserted
look as shopkeepers downed shutters after the word spread about Akbar
Owaisi's arrest. Shops and business establishments were also shutdown
voluntarily in the many parts of communally-sensitive old city.
Akbar
Owaisi was arrested by the police Tuesday evening and taken to Nirmal
town in Adilabad district, about 200 km from here, where a case was
booked against him.
Police sounded an alert in areas under
the limits of 15 police stations in the old city. Armed policemen from
the state forces and the central paramilitary forces were deployed to
maintain law and order.
The security was specially
tightened at the temple abutting Charminar. It was the row over the
expansion of temple which led to communal tension and MIM severing its
ties with ruling Congress party in the state in November last year.
MIM
has seven members in 294-member state assembly. All its legislators are
from Hyderabad, the traditional stronghold of the party. Akbar Owaisi
is the leader of MIM in the assembly.
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