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NEW DELHI — Hundreds of police officers swooped down today on a hunger strike by a charismatic Indian yoga guru and forcibly removed him and thousands of his supporters.
Officers detained Baba Ramdev for security reasons but later released him, said Rajan Bhagat, a police spokesman in New Delhi.
Ramdev and tens of thousands of his supporters went on hunger strikes across India and in several cities in the United States, Europe and Africa on Saturday in a campaign to try to root out India’s endemic corruption.
The police clampdown early today came within hours of both the government and Ramdev announcing an agreement on steps to battle corruption.
