Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and his team were on Tuesday denied permission to hold a hunger strike at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Wednesday.

The Delhi Police denied Hazare permission and said that Section 144, which disallows any public gathering, was in force.

Hazare's team, however, made it clear they would go ahead with the fast. Arvind Kejriwal, RTI activist and Hazare's aide, said the team was even ready to court arrest.

Hazare had on Sunday announced a day-long nationwide hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against the eviction of Baba Ramdev during his satyagraha at Delhi's Ramlila grounds. He even decided to boycott meetings of the Lokpal Bill drafting committee.

Accusing the government of suspicious intent on dealing with corruption, Hazare said the civil society would defy prohibitory orders on Wednesday.

"We have been interacting with the government for the last one and a half months. The (Ramdev eviction) incident and the proceedings of earlier (Lokpal draft panel) meetings clearly make the government's intentions in dealing with corruption suspicious," he said.

"The government has been trying to crush the anti-corruption movement," he alleged.

Hazare had in April staged a successful fast unto death agitation at Jantar Mantar to push the government to draft an effective Lokpal Bill.

The agitation drew the support of thousands across the country and forced the government to set up a Lokpal Bill drafting committee, comprising civil society members as well.