Hyderabad, July 22 -- A case has been registered against a former councillor on charges of "harassment and misbehaviour" with some inmates of a state-run girls' hostel in Sangareddy district, police said on Tuesday.

The former councillor of Narayankhed, identified as Rajesh, who is the son of the hostel warden, Sharada, was accused of "misbehaving" with minor girls during frequent visits to the hostel.

The man is reportedly a former Congress party councillor.

Some of the inmates also alleged that the accused, who is in his mid-30s, entered the hostel in an "inebriated condition and harassed and misbehaved" with them, police added.

They claimed that although the matter was brought to the warden's attention, "no action was taken". Inste...