Jammu, July 20 -- Senior Congress leaders, including Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Hameed Karra, AICC general secretary and Congress Legislature Party leader G.A. Mir, and working president Raman Bhalla, were detained on Sunday after police stopped the party's protest march towards the Lieutenant Governor's residence in Jammu over the demand for restoration of statehood.

According to a party statement, hundreds of Congress workers participated in a sit-in at Maharaja Hari Singh Park before taking out a protest march towards the LG House. The march was intercepted by police at Vinayak Bazar, where the senior leadership was taken into preventive custody and shifted to the District Police Lines, Gandhi...