Hyderabad: Telangana Employees JAC held dharnas in front of the collectorates across the state, seeking action against those responsible for the attack on Vikarabad collector Pratheek Jain. The

Joint Action Committee government employees in Hyderabad demanded for swift investigation against attack on officials in Vikarabad and legislative act to protect public servants from violence

This comes in the wake of the arrest of BRS MLA Patnam Narender Reddy on Wednesday morning in connection with the attack on Vikarabad collector

Minister for Roads and Buildings Komatireddy Venkat Reddy condemned the attack on Vikarabad District Collector Prateek Jain, denouncing it as an “unprecedented act of violence” targeting a civil servant.

Political tension in Telagana escalated after a former MLA from BRS admitted to have orchestrated the Vikarabad violence. Police report stated that he did so under the instructions of BRS leader KT Rama Rao.

Telangana's Vikarabad district collector and other revenue officials were attacked during a public hearing on land acquisition. Police arrested BRS MLA Patnam Narender Reddy, who confessed to conspiring to destabilise the government on the instructions of BRS Working President KTR.