New DelhiPolice pulled Abhijeet Dipke off a plane.
His family says it cannot reach him, and his party says even lawyers were refused.
Police call it preventive detention before an unpermitted Jantar Mantar protest demanding the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner.
“Under what law was my son detained from the aircraft?” asked his father, Bhagwanrao Dipke.
The family does not know if he reaches Hingoli for his grandmother’s Sunday rites.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 80+ reports worldwide
- Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd leans critical
- foregrounds the detention happening at the airport on arrival, and the grandmother's death hours later as a human stake
- Hindustan Times
- centres the family's uncertainty over whether Dipke can reach his grandmother's funeral, via his mother's hope and father's silence from contact
Sources: Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd, Hindustan Times