Director General of Police K. Aravinda Rao on Thursday claimed that the police forces maintained utmost restraint both in preventing the crowds from congregating on the Tank Bund and also in handling them after the crowd congregated as a part of the Million March' organised by the Telangana Joint Action Committee.

In a statement, Mr. Rao said elaborate arrangements were made to maintain peace and prevent unlawful incidents in the city. The activists about 20,000 of various groups who had gathered in the city in the last few days and reached Tank Bund through various routes. He said as the crowd was heterogeneous police could not have a uniform policy or a unified command and this led to some activists damaging some of the statues installed on the Tank Bund.