Congress leaders detained on Monday during the party's protest ahead of Rahul Gandhi's ED appearane in a money-laundering probe linked to the National Herald newspaper, were released from various police stations after 11 hours.

Many Congress MPs who were detained for violating CrPC Section 144 were released around 11.30 pm soon after Rahul Gandhi left the Enforcement Directorate office after questioning. The MPs who were detained for over 11 hours include Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, K C Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala and Harish Rawat. Surjewala had earlier alleged that were kept under "illegal" detention in violation of the law under the Narendra Modi regime. A video showed Chowdhury and Venugopal asking the police to either arrest them or release them immediately.