India, July 2 -- Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and his party workers were taken into preventive custody by Punjab Police in Mohali on Wednesday to prevent them from marching to the district court complex to express solidarity with SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been arrested in a disproportionate assets case.

Majithia is to be produced in a Mohali court as his seven-day vigilance remand comes to an end. Heavy police deployment has been made outside the Vigilance Bureau (VB) office and the district court complex in Mohali.

Badal, who was whisked away from Gurdwara Amb Sahib in Mohali, accused the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government of imposing an "undeclared emergency" in the state for cracking down on SAD workers...