After Yogendra Yadav alleged that he was beaten and manhandled before being arrested by the Delhi police, he has found support from Arvind Kejriwal, with whom he had parted ways.

After Yogendra Yadav alleged that he was beaten and manhandled before being arrested by the Delhi police, he has found a somewhat unlikely ally: Delhi chief minister and one-time Aam Aadmi Party comrade Arvind Kejriwal. However Yadav's party people did not take this 'support too well and even heckled AAP leader Sanjay Singh when he came to Parliament Street to meet Yadav.

Here's what the Delhi CM tweeted:

I strongly condemn the treatment metted out to Yogendraji by Delhi police. They were protesting peacefully. It is their fundamental right. — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 11, 2015

Kejriwal set aside all the ill-will that may have prevailed after the two went their separate ways in April and tweeted strongly against the Delhi Police action.

"We condemn the way police behaved with Yogendra Yadav and his supporters. This is not right as in this country peaceful demonstration is a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution and we condemn such action against peaceful protesters...I appeal to Home Minister Rajnath Singh to interfere in this and ask for a report regarding the issue," PTI quoted Kejriwal as saying.

Television news reports have said that Yogendra Yadav is being taken to a hospital for medical examination.

His statement led the Indian Express to wonder whether it has “multiple meanings” and whether this can be seen as the melting of the ice between the two leaders. However, it may have also had something to do with the fact that the Delhi Chief Minister is waging a running war with the Delhi Police on various issues.

Meanwhile. visuals on news channels showed supporters of Yadav shouting slogans of "wapas jao" (go back) against AAP leader Sanjay Singh who had come to meet them.

Not long ago, Kejriwal had said that “limits were crossed” with reference to the decision to expel Yogendra Yadav from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Yogendra Yadav, on his part, had criticized Kejriwal’s “stubbornness” and said that he had been expelled as he had questioned the party’s principles.

Yogendra Yadav was on Monday night arrested after he led a farmers' agitation near Jantar Mantar in Delhi, according to reports. Yadav, who now heads the organisation Swaraj Abhiyan, has alleged that he was manhandled by the police.

Scores of farmers from across the country had planned to place an installation on Monday in front of the Prime Minister's residence here as a symbol of protest against the Delhi Race Course, which they want to be converted into a farmers' memorial.

After the arrest by the police, Yadav posted a photo of himself with a torn sleeve on Twitter, questioning why action was being taken against a peaceful protest.

Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan also claimed that he rushed to the police station on hearing about Yadav's detention but was stopped from meeting him, according to a DNA report.