A senior police official today allegedly pushed aside some TV journalists near 'Pragathi Bhavan', the official residence-cum-camp office of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, here, following which the police department ordered an inquiry into the incident.
A purported video clip of the incident has gone viral. It shows a police official, who was later joined in by other personnel, pushing aside some TV journalists, including a woman reporter and cameramen, when they were covering a protest organised by a group of contract employees of the Health Department seeking enhancement of their wages, among other demands.
The police official in the video was identified as Assistant Commissioner of Police (Panjagutta Division) Venkateshwarlu.
Following the incident, Hyderabad Police Commissioner M Mahendar Reddy ordered an inquiry into the incident.
Reddy asked Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone), A Venkateshwar Rao, to inquire into the incident and submit a report to him.
"A group of protesters tried to gherao the camp office and police immediately shifted them away. It is alleged that some journalists were pushed away. An inquiry has been ordered over the behaviour of the ACP with journalists. I will get it inquired," the DCP told PTI.
The Telangana State Union of Working Journalists condemned the incident and submitted a memorandum to the state Director General of Police, Anurag Sharma, seeking action against the police officials alleging that members of the media fraternity were "misbehaved" by the police.
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