New Delhi: Anna Hazare has been sent to seven days in judicial custody. He is being taken to Tihar Jail. The 74-year-old anti-corruption crusader refused to apply for bail after being arrested in the capital today.
Delhi Police say Mr Hazare had be detained and then placed under "preventive arrest" to maintain law and order in the capital. Because the activist leader refused to obey orders not to fast. A united Opposition has slammed the government, saying it is Emergency again. And demanded that Anna be freed. Now. The government says it was "a painful duty" to arrest him; in a very high-level huddle, senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram met Rahul Gandhi a little after noon on Tuesday. This after the Opposition forced an adjournment of Parliament over the issue.
In cities, big and small, across the country, angry people have taken to the streets in protest against Anna Hazare's arrest.
Delhi Police say Mr Hazare had be detained and then placed under "preventive arrest" to maintain law and order in the capital. Because the activist leader refused to obey orders not to fast. A united Opposition has slammed the government, saying it is Emergency again. And demanded that Anna be freed. Now. The government says it was "a painful duty" to arrest him; in a very high-level huddle, senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram met Rahul Gandhi a little after noon on Tuesday. This after the Opposition forced an adjournment of Parliament over the issue.
In cities, big and small, across the country, angry people have taken to the streets in protest against Anna Hazare's arrest.
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