BRS Leader Held On Charges Of 'Threatening' Cop, Granted Bail

Hyderabad: BRS leader Errolla Srinivas was arrested on Thursday in connection with a case of allegedly obstructing, threatening, and abusing a police official here, police said. A local court granted him bail immediately, they added.

He was arrested in connection with a case booked on December 4 in which his party MLA P Kaushik Reddy was booked for allegedly obstructing the vehicle of a police Inspector.

According to police, BRS MLA P Kaushik Reddy and others were booked on December 4, under sections dealing with unlawful assembly, using force to obstruct the duties of a public servant, criminal intimidation, wrongful restraint, public nuisance, and rioting based on the complaint of the Banjara Hills Police Inspector. Srinivas, one of the accused in that case was arrested from his residence on Thursday and produced before a local court which granted him bail, a senior police official said.

"When the Inspector was leaving the station on emergency field duty, a group led by Kaushik Reddy obstructed the police vehicle," police said. "Despite being told to submit their grievance to another official at the Police Station, the group instigated by Reddy not only started obstructing the Inspector's vehicle but also started abusing the officer and threatening him," police added.