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Police yesterday arrested an ethnic Indian leader who helped to organise a massive anti-Government rally this week to demand equality for minority Indians.
V. Ganapathy Rao of the Hindu Rights Action Force, or Hindraf, which held the banned rally of about 10,000 people on Sunday, was picked up from his office, said a colleague.
P. Uthayakumar said police gave no reason for the arrest, adding that he expects himself and his brother, P. Wyatha Moorthy, to be arrested soon.
Uthayakumar, Moorthy and Rao are the three main leaders of Hindraf, a little known group that came into national prominence after the rally to highlight the plight of ethnic Indians.
"I'm prepared for the worst."
The three men were charged last week with sedition over a speech they made before the rally. But a court freed them on a technicality because prosecutors failed to produce a copy of the speech in Tamil, the language in which they had spoken.
- AP
