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| Anna Hazare arrested, |
| Anna Hazare arrested, starts fast; Govt slammed by opposition, public
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| INDIA
, 16-August-2011
5:7:52 AM |
| Anna Hazare is under arrest and has been produced before a magistrate. The police action foiled his plan to fast at Delhi's JP Park, but the 74-year-old has not eaten or even had water since early morning. (Read: Who is Anna Hazare)
Mr Hazare's "preventive arrest" came after three hours of his being under "preventive detention." The Opposition has slammed the government, saying it is Emergency again. The government says it was "a painful duty"; in a very high-level huddle, senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram met Rahul Gandhi a little after noon on Tuesday.
At 7.30 am on Tuesday morning, minutes before Mr Hazare was to set out for his fast against corruption, about a dozen policemen in plain clothes detained him at fellow-activist Prashant Bhushan's residence at Supreme Enclave in Delhi's Mayur Vihar, where he was staying.
They tried to whisk him away in a white Innova car, but hundreds of angry protesters ensured that the car could barely move for over an hour. (Do you agree with Anna Hazare's fast?)
Mr Hazare, with several of his key aides who are now also under arrest, was taken to the Delhi Police Mess near Oberoi Maiden in north Delhi and was produced before a special executive magistrate there.
Defiance of police orders unacceptable: Chidambaram
Under attack from all quarters, the government has justified the police action on Anna. Home Minister P Chidambaram, not allowed to make a statement in Parliament by a belligerent Opposition, called Anna Hazare's detention a "painful duty," carried out because of "breach of peace." He was at pains to say that the government was not against peaceful protest, but said Team Anna was detained because it had refused to comply with six of the police's 22 conditions and made clear that it would defy orders not to hold their protest fast.
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