On
friday, the municipal
police broke the impasse by storming inside a
temple while wearing their shoes, purportedly to
arrest several demonstrators. Allegations surfaced that the jobless youngsters engaged in a demonstration in front of the TGPSC headquarters sought refuge in a
temple when law enforcement launched an offensive against them in an attempt to stifle the demonstration against the government's purported failure to fulfill its electoral pledge to create employment.
The incident happened on
friday afternoon at Sri
kashi vishwanath temple in Nampally. According to the
people who live nearby,
police officers entered the
temple after learning that there were ten to fifteen demonstrators inside.
Some constables, including a sub-inspector, stood inside the shrine wearing shoes, while one policeman took off his shoe.
people with knowledge of the situation in the area claimed that the children refused to be taken into custody, arguing that they had come to pray.
One of the young
people even went so far as to ask the
police whether they were not even allowed to worship at the temple. But the young
people were taken into custody by the
police and sent to the
local police station.