PRAYAGRAJ, June 29 -- Nagina MP and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) chief Chandra Shekhar Azad was taken into custody from the Prayagraj airport on his arrival on Sunday afternoon and taken to the Circuit House where he was kept under "house arrest" for a few hours before being allowed to proceed to Varanasi.

Azad had planned to go to Kaushambi to meet the alleged rape victim of Lonhada village. He had also intended to visit Karchana to meet the family of a youth who was burnt to death recently.

According to DCP (city), Prayagraj, Abhishek Bharti, Azad was taken to Varanasi by road at around 8.30pm on Sunday from where he would fly to Delhi.

Earlier, when Azad was stopped from going to Kaushambi and Karchana in Prayagraj, his supporters c...