Hyderabad city police on Tuesday took the BJP legislator Raja Singh into preventive custody from his residence in Goshamahal.
City police commissioner Anjani Kumar said that the MlA was taken into custody in view of his threat to go on an indefinite fast in front of police commissioner’s office.
A team of North Zone police task force made the arrest and shifted him to police station.
Raja Singh had planned the fast demanding ban on the slaughter of big animals on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha.
He also alleged that the police was booking false cases against the Gau Rakhshaks or volunteers working to protect the cows.
He criticised the police that they had failed in preventing the slaughtering of cows and bulls.
Raja Singh who had created a stir by resigning from the BJP last week saying he would like to focus on cow protection, had threatened that if cows were slaughtered on Eid there will be mob violence.