Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM detained by Delhi police

Indian Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was detained for a second time yesterday by Delhi Police and taken to an undisclosed location after he tried to meet the family members of the ex-serviceman who allegedly committed suicide as high drama unfolded on streets in Lutyens' Delhi with Congress and AAP workers staging protests.

Gandhi along with other Congress leaders, including Jyotiraditya Scindia and Ajay Maken were bundled into a police van and taken to the Tilak Marg police station.

Earlier in the day, Gandhi was detained at the RML Hospital when he tried to meet the family members of ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal, who allegedly committed suicide last night over the One Rank-One Pension issue, and taken to Mandir Marg police station. He was detained for around 70 minutes before being released.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that he has been detained by police but has no idea where they are taking him. Earlier, Arvind had tweeted that cops were not letting him go to a police station to meet the family of Ram Kishan Grewal.

In a video shot inside Mandir Marg police station, Rahul was seen lashing out at a group of Delhi Police personnel for taking into custody some relatives of Grewal.

Grewal, an ex-serviceman from Haryana, ended his life on Tuesday by allegedly consuming poison on the lawns behind a government building in Janpath, the central area of the capital. Grewal, who was a familiar face of OROP agitation which demands a balanced pension system for all present and past servicemen, left behind a suicide note, his son said. A family member of Grewal alleged that police manhandled them when the family was in trauma.

Hitting back, BJP today accused Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal of doing "politics over deaths" after they targeted Modi government over the suicide.