Click to play videoLucknow: Congress MP from Moradabad, former Indian cricket captain turned Parliamentarian Azharuddin courted arrest at Moradabad on Friday.
Azharuddin had said earlier that he would court arrest to mark his protest against the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi.
Azharuddin led a protest rally of his supporters after the Friday namaz in Moradabad.
Azharuddin was protesting the arrest of the state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi. Joshi was arrested on Wednesday night in Ghaziabad for allegedly having made derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati at a public meeting in Moradabad.
Moradabad is Azharuddin's constituency.
Rita Joshi was charged under the Scheluled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The same night her house in Lucknow was attacked and torched by a mob.
The chief judicial magistrate in Moradabad, on Thursday ordered Joshi to be sent to 14 days judicial custody.
Her request for bail could not be heard by the Moradabad additional district judge on Friday due to a call for strike by the Bar council in the city.
At a meeting in Moradabad on Wednesday, Joshi had mocked at the state director general of police flying down to Dalit rape victims in recent days and spending huge amounts to distribute compensation of Rs.25,000 to Rs.75,000 to each of them.
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