PTI, AHMEDABAD: Quota leader Hardik Patel was detained today along with his supporters when they were trying to organise fast in Ahmedabad’s Nikol area, the police said. Today’s fast protest was planned by the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) at a parking plot in the locality.
The symbolic fast was aimed at seeking allocation of a ground for a gathering planned by Hardik on August 25 for the demand for quota for Patidar youths in jobs and education. Hardik had announced to sit on indefinite fast for the quota demand from August 25. Hardik and eight leaders of the PAAS were detained today by the city crime branch from outside his house in Sola area, said Crime Branch DCP Deepan Bhadran.
The Crime Branch has registered an FIR against Hardik and eight others under sections 143 (Unlawful assembly) and 186 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of publicfunctions) of the IPC.
