Ahmedabad: Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti leader Hardik Patel was traced by Gujarat Police hours after he went missing on Wednesday.
Patel surfaced in Halwad, 155 km from Ahmedabad. Earlier on Wednesday, the Gujarat High Court had directed police to trace the 22-year-old Patidar leader. He has not been arrested.
He had on Tuesday evaded arrest following a police crackdown on a public meeting in the Aravalli district while 17 other protesters were arrested for disobeying prohibitory orders. The protest was being held even as the authorities had imposed Section 144 in the area.
After Patel addressed the meeting at Tenpur village, the police tried to detain him but he fled in a vehicle, a senior police officer said.
"Hardik held a public meeting in Tenpur village in Bayad taluka without taking prior permission. As we came to know about it, our police team went there to detain him but he ran away from there to evade detention," Inspector General of Police Hasmmukh Patel said.
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