Reportedly with nearly 48,000 employees boycotting their duties and state-run buses staying off roads, the RTC said alternative arrangements were made to run bus services from its own fleet. Meanwhile around 11,000 vehicles including buses were being operated. Furthermore in a related development, the vacation bench of the Telangana High Court posted to October 15 the hearing on a petition that sought to declare the strike as "illegal."
Further the government also submitted before the court a report informing it about the alternative arrangements taken and the court asked the government and TSRTC to file a detailed report before it by October 15. Previously on Sunday, the court had directed the government to submit a report by Thursday, on the alternative arrangements made in view of the ongoing strike, besides ordering issuance of notices to two unions of RTC.
Moreover the RTC unions through their counsels submitted that as per law they had given strike notices to the government. Perhaps the petitioner submitted that citizens were facing inconvenience due to non-plying of buses and sought a direction for an amicably settlement on the issue between the government and the union. Apparently in Warangal, the protesters accused the police of behaving in high-handed manner after several of them were taken into preventive custody while they were "holding protest rally in peaceful manner."
