The Kandukur police acted after images and video clips from the gathering spread across social media, drawing questions over the decision to conduct the programme beside a place of worship. Police said the locality remained peaceful and instructed a person who had posted material from the event to remove the posts.
The footage and photographs show participants assembled on the road or open space directly in front of the mosque. Material posted online described the gathering as the final day of a 10-day “Shakha Saptaham” and referred to a Bharat Mata Puja and other activities.
SS Reddy, whose social-media account carries posts about local RSS activities, uploaded photographs and videos on October 4. In his accompanying description, he said a Bharat Mata Puja and other programmes had been conducted on the tenth and final day at the “Nedunuru Shakha” in Kandukur Khanda of Rangareddy district.
The online description did not identify the mosque as the setting. Separately circulated images and videos, however, clearly placed the concluding programme immediately outside the religious building. Other social-media posts alleged that “Jai Shri Ram” slogans were raised during the gathering and questioned why the authorities had permitted an event of that nature so close to a mosque.
Police have not publicly established that the gathering caused any disturbance at the mosque or led to violence. A Kandukur police officer said the area was peaceful and rejected the assertion that the event was connected to the RSS, despite the terminology and captions used in material posted by Reddy and circulated by other accounts.
That discrepancy has become central to the questions surrounding the episode. The material available online describes the programme as a shakha and associates it with activities commonly linked to RSS gatherings, but the police position, as stated after the footage surfaced, is that the event was not related to the organisation.
No detailed police statement explaining the basis for that denial had been made public by Monday night. The officer also declined to provide further particulars about the suo motu action, including the precise provisions, if any, invoked by police or whether organisers had obtained permission for the gathering.
There was also no verified public statement from the RSS addressing the Nedduru event or clarifying whether the participants or organisers were formally associated with it. In the absence of such confirmation, the identity of the organisers remains disputed between the descriptions attached to the circulating material and the account given by police.
The episode attracted attention chiefly because of the programme’s proximity to the mosque rather than any confirmed confrontation. Social-media users questioning the event argued that authorities should exercise particular caution when political, ideological or religiously expressive gatherings are held immediately beside another community’s place of worship.
The available footage does not by itself establish whether the space outside the mosque is public land, whether the mosque authorities objected before or during the programme, or what permissions were required or secured. Police have not disclosed those details.
The distinction is significant because questions about permission, public-order precautions and the use of space near a religious site depend on the circumstances of the gathering and the applicable local rules. No evidence has emerged publicly that worship at the mosque was interrupted.
Nedduru is within the Kandukur area of Rangareddy district, part of the wider Hyderabad region. The controversy moved beyond the village after the photographs and videos were reposted by accounts questioning the administration’s handling of the event.
Police intervention followed the online circulation rather than a publicly disclosed complaint from mosque representatives. The direction to remove the social-media posts was also confirmed by the local officer, though no reason for that instruction was publicly detailed.
