Hyderabad, July 18 -- Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Mallela Venkata Ramanamurthy and eight others were arrested on Saturday from Andhra Pradesh's Guntur town for allegedly stripping, assaulting and publicly humiliating a 46-year-old woman over a motor pump connection, police said.

On July 15, Ramanamurthy, claiming to be the ward secretary demanded Rs.10,000 from the woman for installing the motor pump to her drinking water pipeline, Nagarapalem sub-inspector of police Pydi Rambabu said.

"When her husband refused, Ramanamurthy picked quarrel and threatened. Later, at about 8pm on July 15, he, along with his mother, wife, two sons and relatives, including a transgender person, trespassed into the woman's house and assaulted her and her...