India, Sept. 4 -- Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj was detained in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr on Friday, hours after Delhi Police assured protesters from the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that he would be arrested within 72 hours in connection with an alleged assault on a student activist's father, officials said.

Several police teams had been deployed to trace Bhardwaj after he allegedly fled from Naithla village on a Bullet motorcycle towards Khurja before a police team could reach the area to apprehend him, officials said.

Bhardwaj was wearing a helmet, apparently to conceal his identity, they said.

The police action came after a video clip of an interview in which Bhardwaj allegedly boasted about assaulting Sanjay Kumar, fathe...