Public meetings banned in Hyderabad

Hyderabad Police Commissioner M. Mahender Reddy passed an order on Thursday prohibiting public meetings and processions within the city limits from August 13 to 19 till 6 a.m. with a view to maintaining Public order.  Public meetings should not be organised without obtaining prior permission of the zonal Deputy Commissioners of Police.

The public has also been prohibited from carrying arms such as swords, spears, knives, sticks with or without flags bludgeons, guns, explosives and other offensive weapons. The gathering of persons on public roads or places, and



carrying of stones has also been prohibited. Usage of mikes, public address systems by different organisations around the Secretariat premises, including the Burgula Rama Krishna Rao Building, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Building, Commissioner of Fisheries Building, Mint Compound, Nizam College and its surroundings, Telangana /A.P. Legislative Assembly premises and surrounding roads, Public Garden Nampally, Upper Tankbund, I–MAX, Rotary and NTR Marg roads also fly-over road leading from Secretariat to Visweswarayya Statue at Khairatabad, has also been banned.