UP Police stops Priyanka Gandhi from visiting Agra, take her to Police Lines

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Wednesday stopped by the Uttar Pradesh Police from going to Agra to meet the family members of a man who allegedly died in police custody. She was taken to the Police Lines.

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The police said Priyanka Gandhi was stopped at the Lucknow-Agra expressway as the Agra District Magistrate had requested not to allow any political personality to go there following the man’s death.

“She has neither been taken into custody nor arrested. Because of the massive crowds, the movement of traffic was being hampered and she was first asked to either go to the party office or her residence but when she did not agree, she was sent to the Police Lines,” Lucknow police commissioner DK Thakur said.

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However, a Congress spokesman claimed that Priyanka Gandhi had been taken into custody while she was going to Agra to meet the family members of the sanitation worker who had died in police custody.

The Congress spokesman alleged that Priyanka Gandhi was made to stop at the expressway for about two hours and later taken into custody.

-PTC News