Hyderabad: Eight members of the Backward Classes Joint Action Committee were arrested on Sunday, October 19, for vandalism in Hyderabad during the bandh on October 18.

According to the Nallakunta SHO K Maruthi Prasad, the accused forcibly shut down shops during the protest. “Members of the BC JAC had violated the law by indulging in rioting under section 191, unlawful assembly under section 189 and destruction of property under section 324 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ),” he said.

They were presented before the magistrate and granted bail.

The statewide bandh was called against the High Court’s stay order on 42 per cent quota to BCs in local body polls in Telangana. All political parties, including the ruling Congress, supported the agitation.

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