The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president, A Revanth Reddy, appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Thursday to record his statement regarding the Telangana State Public Service Commission paper leak case. The SIT had summoned Revanth for questioning and requested evidence in support of his allegations against the government. However, before Revanth reached the SIT office, the City police put several Congress leaders under house arrest as a preventive measure, including Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Mallu Ravi, and Addanki Dayakar. They were placed under house arrest until the evening.
Revanth Reddy headed to the SIT office at Himayatnagar with a rally of supporters, but the police stopped them at Liberty Crossroads, causing tension between the police and party supporters. The Congress activists staged a dharna on the road in protest of being disallowed to hold the rally. The police permitted Revanth and a few supporters to walk to the SIT office, but when the supporters tried to barge into the office, they were arrested and shifted to different police stations in the city.
Condemning the arrests, Revanth Reddy accused the ruling BRS of suppressing protests in the state while engaging in high drama in Delhi, where MLC K Kavita is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate. He alleged that IT and Industry Minister KT Rama Rao’s close aides were involved in the paper leak and that he has information on it. He also claimed that many candidates scored more than 103 marks, out of 150 marks, in Group 1 preliminary exam with the support of KTR team members.
