Mulayam Singh taken into custody;
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was on a dharna to protest spiralling prices of food items, was today taken into preventive custody, even as police lathi-charged protesting party workers here.
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has moved the Allahabad High Court seeking a stay on his arrest in connection with a ``politically motivated'' FIR lodged in Kanpur charging him with amassing wealth by favouring certain companies.