Priors
Telangana statehood agitation (2009 to 2011)

Preventive arrest

9 Dec 2009

In power
INC — Andhra Pradesh
Acted
Police, Andhra Pradesh

Ahead of a 'march to Hyderabad' to the Assembly called by the students' JAC and the TRS for 10 December, additional police forces were deployed in the capital, and police and paramilitary forces took hundreds of students and activists into preventive custody. The Srikrishna Committee report states that during the agitation that began on 29 November 'reportedly over five thousand persons were taken into preventive custody'. [1][2][3]

  • over 5,000 persons taken into preventive custody during the agitation from 29 November 2009, said Srikrishna Committee report ('reportedly') [3]
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The same action under other governments

For each party in power, its most recent preventive arrest in another entry. Chosen by this rule, not by hand.

  1. 2026Protests demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's resignationIn power: BJP — Delhi Police, Haryana
  2. 2011India Against Corruption fast and Anna Hazare arrestIn power: INC — Delhi Police

Sources

  1. 1Centre buckles: Resolution likely today; Rao ends fastPTI via The Tribune, 10 Dec 2009T5 SecondaryArchived 13 Dec 2009
  2. 2Centre says a guarded yes to TelanganaThe Indian Express, D K Singh, 9 Dec 2009T4 ReportArchived 31 Mar 2016
  3. 3Committee for Consultations on the Situation in Andhra Pradesh: Report, Volume I (Srikrishna Committee)Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, 30 Dec 2010T2 CourtArchived 15 May 2023