Terming the detention as undemocratic and unconstitutional, Kiran bedi said Emergency has revisited the country."Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia and Shanti Bhushan were also taken into preventive custody by the Delhi police on Tuesday .
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Hazare asked his supporters to fill up jails across the country and nationwide protests are on against the crackdown on team Anna .
Two other prominent activists Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi were also taken into preventing custody at Rajghat and around 500 supporters were with Anna at the time of his detention.
Chanting 'Bharat Mata ki jai' and 'Vande Matram,'supporters created hurdles in the way of the police which were trying to take him to a nearby police station.
Police is detaining supporters who are coimg at J P park and lot of supporters have been detained .
Kiran Bedi termed "Detention unconstitutional".While detaining Anna team members , Kiran Bedi asked police about the charges against them the police officers said that they are only following orders.
"This is exactly what happened during emergency. Emergency has revisited the country. This detention is unconstitutional and undemocratic," said Bedi.
Arvind Kejriwal said that "Protest will continue in jail as well" .
According to sources, senior police officials, including DCP (Crime) Ashok Chand, met with Hazare this morning at an east Delhi apartment where he was staying in a bid to convince him to not go ahead with his planned protest defying prohibitory orders at J P Park.
However, Hazare turn down the request following which he was detained. "We have detained him as he did not budge from his
position of defying prohibitory orders," police official said. Flaying the police move, Bedi said, "Emergency has revisited the country."
Anna in his addresses to the nation before his arrest asked his supporters not to stop the agitation. He urged the protesters to remain peaceful.
When our freedom is restricted, it is as good as being arrested," Kiran Bedi said as she courted arrest on Tuesday.
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan said that "we will move court "
"I will approach the court today," he said. "There will be massive protests across the country including Delhi. The government will not be able to handle the storm now," said Bhushan.
Bhushan also said that if Government will send Anna team members to Maharashtra like they did with Baba Ramdev as he was sent to haridwar (Uttarakhand ) we will continue the fast from there .
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slammed him for resorting to fast as a protest when Parliament was seized of the Lokpal bill, the Gandhian had said he will go to J P park despite Delhi police imposing prohibitory orders.
Anna had said on Monday "I come to understand that I will be refused permission.We will go there. If I am arrested, I will continue my hunger strike in jail. If I am released, I will go back to the venue and this circle will continue."
He said once he is arrested, people should fill up the jails in every village across the country. "Going to jail for the country is no crime...It is a decoration," he said. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat had said that prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC has been imposed in some areas of Daryaganj and IP police stations, which include Jai Prakash Narain Park and Shaheed Park.
Hazare had also accused the Prime Minister of "speaking" the language of his ministerial colleague Kapil Sibal, saying the Lokpal bill was before Parliament which will take the call.
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