'I'm being taken to Delhi', tweets Chandra Shekhar Azad a day after his arrest in Hyderabad

NEW DELHI: A day after his arrest in Hyderabad, Chandra Shekhar Azad is being taken to Delhi, the dalit leader informed via Twitter.
On Sunday Azad lawyer Mehmood Pracha was arrested by Telangana police while he was on his way to attend an anti-CAA protest being organised by the alumni of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and All India Dalit Muslim Adivasi Progressive Front (AIDMPAF).
"Dictatorship is at its peak in Telangana. People's right to protest is being snatched. First, our people were beaten with lathis and now they have arrested me. Now they have brought me to the airport and sending me off to Delhi. The Bahujan samaj will never forget this humiliation, the Telangana chief minister should remember. I will come back soon," Azad tweeted.

As the police had denied permission for the public meeting, it took Azad and others accompanying him into custody and shifted them to various police stations.
Azad and lawyer Mehmood Pracha were detained after they stepped out of a hotel in Masab Tank to go to the public meeting venue at Mehdipatnam.
They were shifted from one police station to the other and some supporters following the police vehicle lost track of it. Though there were reports that they were taken to Bolarum or Medchal police stations, his supporters did not find him there.
Few supporters of the dalit leader were detained when they went to Hyderabad police commissioner's office and tried to stage a protest demanding to know his whereabouts.
Azad's supporters took to the social media to condemn his arrest and demanded his immediate release. #FreeBhimArmyChief was one of the top trends on Twitter. Some of his followers tweeted that he may be taken to the airport and sent back to Delhi.
Azad's detention came 10 days after his release on bail from Tihar Jail. He was arrested by Delhi police on December 20 on charges of inciting people during anti-CAA protest. He was held when he tried to take out a march from Jamia Masjid to Jantar Mantar.
(With inputs from agencies)