Protesters pick up placards containing slogans before a demonstration in New Delhi, June 7, 2011, against Sunday's police action to break up an anti-corruption hunger strike led by India's yoga guru Swami Ramdev. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday he had no alternative but to send police to forcibly end a peaceful anti-graft protest by Ramdev and thousands of his followers, hours after the country's top court called on the government to justify its actions. Around 600 police used batons and tear gas early on Sunday to break up a mass hunger strike led by Swami Ramdev in New Delhi, detaining the TV star before putting him on a plane to his home state. Dozens of followers and police were injured. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)