India, July 23 -- Several Indian National Congress leaders were put under house arrest in Gurugram and Faridabad on Tuesday and Wednesday after police feared they may march to Delhi or hold local protests over the alleged lathi-charge on protesters at Jantar Mantar and the detention of the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, by Delhi Police on Tuesday.

Congress's Gurugram president (urban) Pankaj Dawar was served a notice under Section 168 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita by the station house officer of Shivaji Nagar police station late Tuesday restraining him from participating in any protest organised by his party.

Dawar said a police team reached his residence around 10.30pm and put him under house arrest.

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