TGSP agitation: prohibitory orders, not curfew, says city police chief

TGSP agitation: prohibitory orders, not curfew, says city police chief

A day after issuing a memo prohibiting gathering of more than five persons in Hyderabad for a month, Police Commissioner CV Anand clarified that it is not a curfew to dampen the Deepavali celebrations.

Speaking to The Hindu, Commissioner Anand said that the restrictions he cleared are for agitators and not for the public.

“The Telangana Special Police (TGSP) constables are planning to take out rallies, send their families for protests. The orders were issued to avoid all that turmoil. This is no way connected to the festival celebrations,” said the officer.

Meanwhile, about 10-12 constables were detained across Hyderabad on Monday for reportedly planning to carry out a rally towards the Secretariat.

The area around the Secretariat on October 28 was scattered with policemen in khakis and in white with patrol vans parked across the junctions.

“We are ordered to be on the lookout for protesters/agitators and party workers,” said one of the three traffic policemen posted outside Martyrs’ Memorial opposite the Secretariat.

The Commissioner also took to X and said, “This is just to clarify that this notification has nothing to do with the Deepavali festival celebrations. There are some other groups of people who are planning various types of agitations, surprise raids on Secretariat, CM’s residence, DGP office, Raj Bhavan etc. We have intelligence about it and this notification is to give legal backing to any police action in arresting such elements or detaining them. This is very routinely done by police all over the country depending on the need. This is not a curfew as some are falsely claiming,” he said.