Both the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) top bosses were transferred out.
On social media, videos of a police patrol vehicle ordering everyone not to come on to roads late in the night and that they would be thrashed if they did so created a scare among people.
Kaushik Reddy had alleged that Transport and BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar was earning huge amounts by illegally transporting fly ash from NTPC Ramagundam to Khammam.