Delhi braces for more protests as 'cockroach' group's leaders released
The court released three CJP leaders on condition they keep the peace for one year after police detained more than 2,000 protesters, officials said.
- On Sunday, October 11, 2026, an executive magistrate in Delhi ordered the release of Cockroach Janta Party leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka after they furnished a Rs 50,000 bond and committed to maintaining peace for one year.
- Police detained the three CJP leaders aboard an Air India flight on October 10, 2026, to prevent protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, whom the movement alleges removed more than 130 million names from voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party .
- Authorities deployed approximately 30,000 personnel across Delhi, closing 45 metro stations and suspending mobile internet to seal the capital. Security forces detained between 2,000 and 7,000 protesters, preventing the march on Jantar Mantar.
- Following their release, CJP leader Dipke called Modi "an embarrassment to India," while opposition leader Rahul Gandhi condemned Delhi Police "thuggery" and announced the INDIA bloc would continue protesting against alleged violence toward students and women.
- The United Nations human rights office expressed concern over mass detentions, though India's foreign ministry called such remarks "unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of India." The Supreme Court began reviewing petitions challenging the security restrictions.
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For several weeks, the Party of the People of the cockroaches, launched by a young Indian on social networks, protested against the government's policy and accused him of authoritarian drift.
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