New Delhi, May 13 -- Several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, including Delhi Unit President Saurabh Bhardwaj and MLAs Sanjeev Jha and Kuldeep Kumar, were detained by the police on Wednesday. The group was taken into custody after gathering outside Raj Niwas to demand a meeting regarding the sexual assault of a three-year-old girl at school in Janakpuri.

According to AAP, the detention came after the delegation waited for hours outside Raj Bhavan seeking a meeting with the LG over Delhi Police officers for allegedly threatening the survivor child's parents.

Calling the police action inhuman, the AAP Delhi state president Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the LG had time to make reels but not to listen to the public, adding that AAP's fight for ...