The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday voiced its unhappiness over the manner in which Telangana Police arrested state Congress working President Revanth Reddy from his house in the dead of night. The court asked the state government what was the need for taking the Congress leader into custody. It heard thrice the habeas corpus petition filed by Congress leader V. Narender Reddy and in the evening summoned the Advocate General to record his statement. Advocate General B.S. Prasad sought time till Wednesday to submit evidence to justify Revanth's arrest. Earlier, the police submitted to the court that they took him into custody as his call for a shutdown in Kodangal to protest Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's visit could have created law and order problems. The court observed that there was nothing wrong in Revanth calling for a shutdown and asked the police to provide evidence to justify its action. Revanth was arrested from his residence at 3 am ahead of KCR's election rally at Kosgi in Kodangal constituency, which was represented by the Congress leader in the dissolved Assembly.
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