Hyderabad, Sept. 21 -- YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) chief YS Sharmila was taken into custody by the Rachakonda police on Tuesday after she and her followers visited the family of a student who died of suicide at Boduppal.

YSRTP functionaries alleged that the party was first given permission to conduct the protest, but that it was rejected later. On Tuesday, Sharmila also announced that she would also undertake a 'Padayatra' across the state from October 2.

Sharmila along with a few 100 of her followers staged a dharna after she met the family of Ravindra Naik, a student of Osmania University who died by suicide earlier. The Rachakonda police, in a press release, said that the inspector of the Medipally police station had visited a spot a...