Former Congress MP Rao taken into preventive custody, released

Former Congress MP V Hanumantha Rao was today taken into preventive custody after he staged a sit-in here protesting against the registration of a case against him for allegedly abusing a police official.

"Rao along with 13 other local party leaders were taken into preventive custody when they held a protest. They were later released," Panjagutta Police Station Inspector S Mohan Kumar told

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