North 24 Parganas, Feb. 27 -- As Sandeshkhali continues to be on the boil, a group of four members of the Congress party, on their way to the troubled area, was detained in Nazat by the police on Tuesday.

The four Congress leaders who had started their journey from Basirhat to Sandeshkhali were detained at the Nazat police station. The police stopped them at some distance from the Nazat ferry ghat.

When they were stopped by the police, the Congress leaders staged a sit-in for a couple of hours. Following this, the police arrested them and brought them to the Nazat police station.

Meanwhile, Indian Secular Front (ISF) MLA Naushad Siddiqui was detained by police in Kolkata on Tuesday as he was preparing to visit Sandeshkhali.

He was see...