Around 800 Cong leaders, workers detained for protesting Rahul Gandhi’s questioning by ED

New Delhi: Around 800 senior Congress leaders and workers have been detained since Monday for protesting the questioning of Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate in violation of prohibitory orders and despite being denied permission, officials said.
Congress leaders and workers were also detained on Wednesday after they staged protests outside the ED office and the party headquarters here.
Gandhi appeared before the ED on Wednesday for the third consecutive day of questioning in the National Herald money laundering case.
Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order zone-II) Sagar Preet Hooda said that the protesters did not have permission.
Also Read Congress says Delhi Police personnel forcibly entered its HQ & beat up workers, demands FIR “We have detained around 800 Congress supporters and leaders since Monday. They did not have permission to protest and we conveyed it to them.
“Despite that they staged protests. We have made adequate security arrangements,” Hooda said.