Hardik Patel Detained Before Meeting Ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt in Prison

Congress leader Hardik Patel, two party MLAs and around 27 of their supporters were today detained while they were on way to Palanpur district jail in Gujarat to meet sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, police said.

Mr Bhatt, who was in June awarded life sentence in a custodial death case, is currently lodged at the Palanpur district jail.

Hardik Patel, the Patidar quota agitation spearhead who joined the Congress earlier this year ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, was detained as soon as he and other party leaders entered Palanpur to go to the jail to meet Mr Bhatt, senior police officer of Banaskantha Niraj Badgujar said.