Anna Hazare refuses to leave jail

New Delhi: Anna Hazare has declined government’s release order by demanding an unconditional permission from government to continue his indefinite fast at JP Park.

Anna along with his few supporters were being picked from a flat sited in Mayur Vihar in east Delhi, as he refused get convinced by the Delhi Police officials. The police urged him not to undertake the fast since it would be in violation of prohibitory orders that were imposed last night.

Hazare and his advisers including Arvind Kejriwal, were first taken to the Delhi Police Officers’ Mess in North Delhi and were shifted to another after Hazare’s supporters gathered in a large numbers at the Civil Lines areas. Near about 1400 activists have been detained in various parts of the city.

Although Civil rights activists Kiran Bedi and Shanti Bhushan as detained by Delhi Police on Tuesday morning, have been released. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat has said that it was merely a "preventive arrest".

Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal along with six supporters have been sent to Tihar jail by a special executive magistrate for not signing a bail bond and promising not to violate prohibitory orders.

Police had clamped prohibitory orders at the J P Park where the activists were planning to sit on fast against corruption.

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