Adilabad: Police question Akbaruddin Owaisi in hate speech case

Adilabad: Police on Saturday began the interrogation of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, booked for alleged sedition and criminal conspiracy for his "hate speech", a day after getting his five-day custody from a court in Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Nirmal town police in Adilabad district, who had registered a case against Owaisi, arrested him from Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad on January 8. He was later remanded in 14-day judicial custody.

A court in Nirmal town had on Friday sent the 42-year-old legislator from Chandrayanagutta in Hyderabad to police remand to facilitate his questioning.

The 42-year-old MIM MLA was remanded to police custody for five days by a court in Adilabad.

Accordingly, a police team took Owaisi's custody from the Adilabad district jail and brought him to Armed Reserve Office in Adilabad where he was being questioned in the presence of one of his lawyers and a doctor, police sources said.

FIRs were registered at Adilabad and Nizamabad districts after the legislator had used allegedly inflammatory and derogatory language against a particular community during his public speeches in December.

Subsequently, the Hyderabad police booked the MIM leader following a court directive while police in Kadapa district registered another case against him on Friday.

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