BJP MLA Raja Singh's injuries while trying to install statue in Hyderabad 'self-inflicted', say police, releases video

Hyderabad: -. [caption id=“attachment_6854881” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  BJP MLA Raja Singh was injured while trying to replace the statue of Rani Avantibai at Jummerath Bazar Circle with a new one.  Twitter/@ANI[/caption] Raja Singh said police “attacked” them at the time after resorting to lathi-charge and he sustained “serious” head injuries and had to be hospitalised. Police denied the allegation, saying the injuries were self-inflicted and booked a case of rioting against Singh and others under relevant IPC sections. Singh, who represents Goshamahal constituency in the city and is the lone BJP MLA in Telangana, posed a question: “Why the police were “targetting him regularly?“Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Zone) AR Srinivas dismissed Raja Singh’s accusations and termed his claims that police attacked him as “totally false.” “They wanted to install the new statue in place of old one without permission which the police opposed and resisted following which Raja Singh and his supporters manhandled our policemen in which a few our policemen sustained minor bruises. It is surprising that Raja Singh today claims he was attacked by police and injured, but it is totally false,” the DCP told reporters here. They forcibly installed a new statue after removing the old one and Raja Singh instigated his followers in doing so. When he was prevented by the police he hit himself with a stone on his head and caused a self-inflicted injury and is falsely alleging that the police has caused this injury, the senior official said adding they could not show any valid permission for installing the new statue. The police also released video footage which purportedly shows Raja Singh, who has been booked multiple times in the past for his alleged “inflammatory” remarks against a particular community, hitting his head with a stone-like object. “There is a video which clearly shows Raja Singh hitting himself on his head with a stone and probably because of that stone he received injuries. There is no evidence to show police have beaten him,” Srinivas said. Police also booked a case against Raja Singh and others in connection with the incident under IPC sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 143 (whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly), 145 (joining or continuing in unlawful assembly) 147 (rioting) and other provisions.

About 2 am Raja Singh with his followers tried to install a 20 feet statue at Jummerat Bazar.without any permission in violation of the law. In the process when he was prevented by police he hit himself with a stone on his head and caused a self inflicted injury on his head pic.twitter.com/GccoNGNSiv

— Hyderabad City Police (@hydcitypolice) June 20, 2019

  “We are investigating and definitely arrests will be made based on further investigations,” the DCP added. A Lodhi-tribe warrior queen, Rani Avantibai Lodhi was the wife of Vikramaditya Singh, the ruler of the state of Ramgarh. She raised a 4,000-member army and personally led it against the British in 1857