Fearing law and order problems, police Thursday detained Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia at Jammu airport and later put him on a flight back to Delhi.

Togadia de-boarded and was moving towards the arrival lounge in the morning when he was stopped by the police and informed that the government had denied him permission to enter the state. He was made to stay at the airport and persuaded to return to Delhi on a connecting flight coming from the Valley in the afternoon.

Later, District Magistrate, Jammu, Sanjeev Verma, too urged him to return as his presence in the state was bound to cause tension. "He returned to Delhi on a flight without any resistance,'' said SP, Airport, Ashok Sharma.

Togadia, who had arrived to attend various VHP functions in Jammu district, had some time ago been booked for making a hate speech that led to communal clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Rajouri town in March 2012.

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