YSR Congress lawmaker Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju was arrested in Hyderabad by Andhra Pradesh’s Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Friday on charges of sedition, the police said in a statement.
The arrest comes weeks after the MP asked a special CBI special court on April 27 to cancel the bail granted to Jagan Mohan Reddy in a disproportionate assets case.
Raju was arrested from his residence in Hyderabad for allegedly acting in a way detrimental to the prestige of the state government.
A police statement said Raju was indulging in systematic, schematic effort to cause tensions among the communities and was attacking various government dignitaries.