Delhi Police detains Punjab Youth Congress chief in tractor-burning incident near India Gate

Delhi Police on Tuesday detained Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) president Brinder Dhillon in connection with tractor-burning incident near India Gate, officials said.

Congress' youth wing activists on Monday morning set a tractor ablaze near India Gate, a few hundred metres from Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament, to protest contentious farm laws.

A senior police officer said that Dhillon has been detained in case.

Six of PYC activists were arrested on Monday and police h also seized two vehicles in matter.Police h said that around 20 people carried a tractor on a truck to Rajpath, Man Singh Crossing, unloed it from truck and set it on fire.

According to police sources, Punjab Youth Congress activists entered Lutyens' Delhi along with a Punjab Police car. 

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