Sharmila: Y S Sharmila taken into preventive custody after staging protest in Hyderabad | India News
Later, Sharmila was shifted to her residence.
Sharmila held a “silent protest” at the Rani Rudrama Devi statue located on the Tank Bund Road to commemorate the International Women’s Day, the YSRTP said in a release.
The YSRTP chief was detained during her “silent protest”, it said.
Sharmila alleged that Telangana now has the dubious record of registering most number of rapes and kidnapping cases against women, according to the release.
The party workers were stopped as they violated the permission rules regarding the protest, a police official at Gandhi Nagar Police Station said adding a case was registered under relevant IPC sections.