India, Jan. 3 -- The protest by police sub-inspector (PSI) aspirants intensified in Pune on Friday over the delayed recruitment advertisement and the demand to extend the age limit by one year. Thousands of exam aspirants have been staging a sit-in agitation near Baba Bhide Bridge in the Deccan area since last night, demanding immediate government intervention. Adding momentum to the protest, Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil arrived at the agitation site on Friday evening and declared that he would not leave until the students' demands were resolved.

Jarange Patil contacted an officer on special duty (OSD) in the chief minister's office over the phone from the agitation site, and reached out to several senior political le...