Hyderabad: The Telangana IAS Officers' Association filed a complaint against two TRS MLAs to Chief Secretary SP Singh, for misbehaving and verbally abusing two collectors in the state.

Shankar Nayak, a member of the Telangana assembly from Mahabubabad had behaved rudely with District Collector Preeti Meena at a public meeting organized during the programme to launch 'Harita Haaram'. On the other hand Yadagiri Reddy from Jangaon, had verbally abused District Collector Devasena.

"BP Acharya IAS, the Association President, while submitting a representation to the chief secretary, has requested that the investigation be entrusted to a woman officer not below the rank of an IG,” a state government release said.

Following a complaint of the collector Preeti, police arrested the MLA on Thursday and later released on bail.

Following a complaint of the collector Preeti, police arrested the MLA on Thursday and later released on bail.

The association also submitted a resolution adopted by it on the incident to the chief secretary. The chief secretary listened to the issue and thanked all for showing solidarity with the officer. He said that the government will take action according to law.

He also said that women should be respected in the society and government will set up an institutional mechanism to prevent such incidents in future by setting up a grievance redress cell.