CPI activists, lawyers taken into preventive custody; released

At least 52 activists of CPI and other Left-wing organisation were today taken into preventive custody when they tried to march towards Raj Bhavan here demanding JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's immediate and unconditional release, police said.
Police also took as many as 10 advocates (of two different groups) into preventive custody when they tried to gather in front of the Bar Council Office over the JNU row, on the premises of High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Charminar Division) K Ashok Chakravarthy told PTI.
"Out of the ten advocates, who were taken into custody -- three of them are pro-Kanhaiya and remaining are anti- Kanhaiya," the ACP claimed, adding, there is no permission either for holding processions or organising meeting on the High Court premises.

Earlier, several CPI and Left-wing activists led by Telangana state CPI secretary Chada Venkat Reddy, raised slogans and attempted to take out a rally towards the Raj Bhavan, but were prevented by police at Khairtabad cross itself and 52 of them were placed under preventive arrests, Saifabad Police Station Inspector K Poorna Chander said.
All those who were taken into preventive custody were later released.