Asad arrested in Bidar, released on personal bond

C.R. Gowri Shanker | 03rd Mar 2013 Hyderabad: MIM president and MP Asaduddin Owaisi was arrested by the Karnataka police near Humnabad in Bidar district for allegedly defying prohibitory orders on Saturday night. Mr Owaisi had gone to campaign for the party’s nominees in civic polls in Bidar, Basavakalyan and Raichur. Sources said he was later released on personal bond. It is learnt that the cops refused to let him campaign in the civic polls. Only local MIM leaders had permission Sources said that the Karnataka police permitted only local MIM leaders to campaign in the civic elections in Bidar. “Mr Owaisi was detained by the police near Humnabad and released later in the night. He had gone there to address a public meeting for the civic polls,” MIM MLC Syed Amin Jafri, told this newspaper. Sources siad the MP was arrested near Humnabad while on way to Hyderabad from Basavakalyan area of Karnataka The Mudgi police detained him on the charge that he addressed a meeting without police permission. Ever since the arrest of brother and MIM MLA, Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, senior Owaisi has been denied permission by Maharashtra and Karnataka governments to address public meetings.