Hyderabad/New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Siasat.com reporters Mohammed Aslam Hussain and Sheikh Abdul Mukarram, who are in New Delhi to cover the Jantar Mantar protests, were detained early Saturday morning (October 10). Their mic was broken, and phones were snatched.

"We were on our way from Paharganj to Connaught Place when police surrounded us and took our phones away. We were put in a room with several youngsters," said Aslam.

Those youngsters, he said, were not even protesters. "Some had come to have tea; others had come to buy medicines," he added.

From there, Siasat.com reporters, along with others, were taken to Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, located in Bawana, around 100 km from the national capital.

They were finally handed their phones, but ...