Hyderabad, June 12 -- Former Parigi MLA Koppula Mahesh Reddy was taken into preventive custody by Vikarabad police while he was proceeding in his car to Kadlapur village of Pargi mandal, where the village sarpanch, along with the farmers have been on an indefinite hunger strike against the state government's attempts to setup an industrial park in that area.

The police blocked Reddy's convoy at Rangapur X Roads, and asked him to come along with them in the police vehicle. Reddy expressed his anguish against the police by saying he was only going to his house in Pargi, and if they wanted they could accompany him in his car.

The police insisted that Reddy either handover the driving wheel to their personnel, or to come with them in the po...