Comedian Masoom Rajwani held at Sahil Wakode vigil in Mumbai, several taken into preventive custody

Mumbai: Stand-up comedian Masoom Rajwani and several others were detained by Mumbai Police on Sunday for participating in a candlelight vigil in memory of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode, who died by suicide last month, an official said.

Altogether, 140 people were taken into preventive custody at Shivaji Park and Chaityabhoomi.

Among them, approximately 120 individuals assembled at Shivaji Park for an unauthorised 'Adivasi Gen Z' protest were rounded up and taken to the local police station.

Separately, police detained 20 to 25 people gathered at Chaityabhoomi in Dadar for an unauthorised candle march in memory of Wakode, the police official said.

Chaityabhoomi is the cremation site of D. B. R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution.