Agnipath protest: Defence academy owner held for railway station arson | India News

Violent protests had erupted after the Heart had introduced the Agnipath scheme.

HYDERABAD: Per week after individuals protesting in opposition to the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to the armed forces turned violent at Secunderabad railway station, Sai Defence Academy proprietor and key accused Avula Subba Rao and three of his aides have been formally arrested by railway police on Saturday.
Rao, who was earlier given a clear chit by the Andhra Pradesh police however was later dropped at Hyderabad by Telangana police, was charged with instigating violence and planning and executing the assault on Secunderabad railway station from a lodge in Boduppal, on town’s outskirts.
A retired Military medical assistant who runs a sequence of defence teaching centres since 2014 within the two Telugu states, Subba Rao was watching the horror unfold at Secunderabad station on June 17 on tv and monitored the scenario whereas receiving updates on the cellphone from his henchmen on the bottom, police claimed.
Subba Rao and three aides – Malla Reddy, Shiva Kumar and Beesi Reddy – have been charged below 29 IPC sections and bopped below the Railways Act, 1989.
“Subba Rao travelled to Hyderabad from Narasaraopet, Andhra Pradesh, a day earlier than the violence was unleashed on Secunderabad station, and put up at a suburban lodge that he become his command put up. Whereas declaring assist to the agitation, he directed his associates, Malla Reddy, Shiva and Beesi Reddy, to instigate Military aspirants to mob the railway station, whereas vowing to bankroll the stir,” the police claimed.
On June 14, after Centre introduced the Agnipath scheme and scrapped the Frequent Entrance Examination (CEE), aspirants for Military jobs who had cleared medical and bodily exams have been indignant as that they had spent two years making ready for CEE.