Police detain Tikait

Indian police on Friday detained a regional leader, Mahender Singh Tikait, in Bharatpur on his way to Bayana, the epicenter of an ongoing agitation by an ethnic group battling for college and government job quotas. The Gujjar protest has swept many places across northern India in the vicinity of tourist circuit Agra-Jaipur-New Delhi, also disrupting road and rail traffic on the New Delhi-Mumbai artery.