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Political drama unfolds in Telangana as BJP chief sent to 14-day custody in SSC paper leak case

The midnight arrest of Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar from his residence at Karimnagar ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state has created a flutter. Kumar and three others were produced before the Warangal sessions court today and remanded to 14 days of judicial custody till April 19.

Party members say the police did not state the reason for the arrest and took Kumar — who had gone home to take part in the funeral rituals of a relative — away by force. BJP workers took to the roads in the middle of the night to protest against Kumar’s arrest and burnt an effigy of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in Karimnagar.
 

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