India, July 21 -- The Mumbai police on Monday detained over 300 people, including students, who had gathered near Chaityabhoomi in Dadar to protest the forcible removal of activist Sonam Wangchuk from a hunger strike in Delhi and demand the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over recent examination paper leaks.

The detentions came on a day when the Delhi police used tear gas and lathis to disperse thousands of protestors attempting to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament as part of a nationwide agitation led by the youth-led Cockroach Janata Party (CJP). Wangchuk, who had been on a three-week hunger strike over alleged exam irregularities and education reforms, was taken to hospital by Delhi Police on Saturday, ...