The Cockroach Janta Party movement

CJP rally in Bengaluru demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's resignation; Dhruv Rathee is among those attending.

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Central Delhi is sealed, with metro stations shut and mobile internet suspended. Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka are detained from their Air India flight on landing. Thousands are detained; counts range from about 2,000 to 7,000.

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The three leaders are released by an Executive Magistrate on condition of no breach of peace for one year, with a Rs 50,000 bond. Dipke's family says the delay made him miss his grandmother's funeral; police say due procedure was followed.

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Opposition workers and activists, led by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, march toward the Supreme Court demanding the Chief Election Commissioner’s resignation.

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Delhi Police remove Jantar Mantar from the list of official protest sites.

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About a dozen people are detained after climbing barricades to enter Jantar Mantar, including CJP spokespeople Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka. Police accuse them of trespassing and defying prohibitory orders.

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A local court sends Das and Ranka to five days’ judicial custody. The CJP says they are being punished for raising the national flag at Jantar Mantar; police say the site is no longer an official protest venue.

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The civic authority closes Central Park in Connaught Place for two days, citing administrative reasons, after the CJP calls a flag-raising rally there. Delhi Police urge people not to join and offer to let a small group carry the flag at a suitable place.

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Authorities issue actor Imran Khan a notice to leave India by October 28 under immigration law, after he joined a protest in Mumbai on October 10 demanding the Chief Election Commissioner’s resignation. Police say action was taken under the Immigration Act; reports say he is not an Indian citizen.

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Khan plans to challenge the notice in the Bombay High Court; PTI reports his plea argues that no law bars an Overseas Citizen of India cardholder from taking part in a protest.

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Police bar gatherings around Connaught Place under Section 163 restrictions and serve founder Abhijeet Dipke a notice; police say waving the flag is not illegal but an unpermitted march is. More than 6,000 police are deployed, per a police briefing reported by ETV Bharat.

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Police detain Dipke outside the house where he was staying, shortly before the rally; AISA president Neha Bora is detained separately on her way. Dipke asks how he can be held when he has broken no law; police give no immediate comment.

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Hundreds gather in flash protests at Connaught Place and Mandi House, waving the national flag. Police say about 150 people have been detained and describe the situation as peaceful; no injuries are reported.

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AISA says its president Neha Bora was taken to an unknown location after her detention. Police have not responded to the claim.

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Police sources say Dipke was taken to Jafarpur Kalan police station; the CJP says on X that it has lost contact with him. AISA says Bora is being held at an Anti-Narcotics Task Force office, and police say those detained were held for law-and-order and traffic reasons.

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Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee calls Dipke's detention an undeclared Emergency. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accuses the Congress and its allies of making young people "pawns in the politics of anarchy", and BJP leader Dilip Ghosh accuses the CJP of disrupting Navratri and Durga Puja celebrations.

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The CJP says Dipke has not been allowed to speak to lawyers and asks Delhi Police to disclose where he is being held. ANI reports no immediate response from police, who placed him under preventive detention under Section 163 prohibitory orders.

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Delhi Police say AISA president Neha Bora was released early on Saturday after formalities under the Delhi Police Act. Dipke has been arrested under preventive sections 126 and 170 of the BNSS, and police sources say he will be produced before a Special Executive Magistrate later on Saturday.

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Delhi Police register multiple FIRs over alleged violations of Section 163 prohibitory orders during Friday's protests in Connaught Place and other parts of New Delhi, and say repeat offenders will face action. Police say displaying the national flag was not banned, but processions or assemblies without permission could lead to legal action.

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A Special Executive Magistrate grants Dipke conditional bail and directs him to furnish a peace bond; LiveLaw reports one condition requires him to keep the peace for one year. Reports say he will be released once bond formalities are completed.

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Dipke is released on Saturday after the magistrate hearing. CJP legal head Ratna Singh says he agreed to conditions she did not detail; The Week reports that several lawyers were kept out of the hearing by security.

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Imran Khan files a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking an urgent stay of the order to leave India by October 28. The petition says the Foreigners Regional Registration Office did not specify the violation it alleges and asks the court to order it to produce its records.

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The Week reports that the petition will be mentioned for an urgent hearing on Monday. No response from the authorities to the petition has been reported.

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The Foreigners Regional Registration Office separately issued Khan a show-cause notice on October 17 asking why his Overseas Citizen of India registration should not be cancelled under Section 7D of the Citizenship Act; Khan has not challenged that notice in his court petition, Bollywood Hungama reports.

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Police tell the court that the previous magistrate received an anonymous threatening WhatsApp message and that a separate daily diary entry was recorded over it. The court calls Das and Ranka's record of calling protests in de-notified areas “habitual”, rejects two proposed sureties as unfit, and lists the case for October 21 for fresh sureties.

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The Bombay High Court schedules Imran Khan's petition against the 'Leave India' notice for October 26, declining his lawyer's request for October 21, and asks him to make the Maharashtra government a party so the court can check for any criminal record, Bollywood Hungama and Daijiworld report.

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Khan's senior counsel, Venkatesh Dhond, tells the court Khan was stopped en route to a protest and has no criminal record; no ruling on Khan's request to stay the October 28 deadline has been reported, with that expected at the October 26 hearing, Bollywood Hungama and Daijiworld report.

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A Special Executive Magistrate court in Delhi extends the judicial custody of CJP spokespeople Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka by two days after their initial five-day remand ends, following a request from Delhi Police; the order's basis has not been made public, The South First and ThePrint report.

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CJP legal head Ratna Singh calls the extension "absurd" and accuses Delhi Police and prosecutors of "deliberate delay tactics," saying a hearing set for noon was repeatedly postponed until about 5:30pm, The South First reports.

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Defence lawyer Pushp Sharma says the magistrate questioned sureties alone and rejected one over what he calls a "hypertechnical" passport-photo mismatch; senior advocate Vikas Pahwa calls the continued detention "illegal custody," arguing the law cited has no provision for holding someone over an already-filed bond, ThePrint reports.

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The CJP moves the Delhi High Court seeking the immediate release of Das and Ranka, arguing their continued custody despite furnished sureties violates their fundamental right to liberty under Article 21; the party says on X it has sought an urgent hearing, ANI and The Statesman report.

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Das and Ranka's lawyers seek an urgent night hearing from the Delhi High Court against the custody extension, but the court does not take up the plea that night, Organiser reports; the two have been held in Tihar Jail since October 14.

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The Delhi High Court agrees to urgently hear Das and Ranka's plea against the custody extension; the petition argues the Special Executive Magistrate's powers were used arbitrarily and that they were not given a chance to present sureties they had ready, The Wire and IANS report. No ruling is reported yet, and the two are separately due before the magistrate as their extended custody expires.

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Hearing the plea, Justice Subramonium Prasad of the Delhi High Court declines to grant relief, saying a writ petition was not the appropriate remedy for an alleged repeat breach of a peace bond and that the correct course was revision; the court says it made no observations on the merits, and Das and Ranka withdraw the plea "for the time being" after the judge notes the Special Executive Magistrate's court would reconsider their sureties later that day, Bar and Bench and Onmanorama report.

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The Special Executive Magistrate's court rejects Delhi Police's bid to extend Das and Ranka's custody by three more days and orders their release; ANI reports the court accepted fresh surety bonds. India TV News and Oneindia report the two walked out of Tihar Jail on October 21 after furnishing personal bonds of Rs 50,000 each, matching sureties, an apology over a media statement, and written undertakings to keep the peace and not call for protests at Jantar Mantar until it is renotified as a protest site.

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Both outlets report Das and Ranka must attend every future hearing along with their sureties, Delhi Police must verify the sureties by the next date, and the case returns before the SEM court on October 23 at 3pm. India TV News reports they had separately withdrawn parallel petitions from the Delhi High Court before the SEM hearing.

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UN human rights experts call on India to immediately stop using "excessive force" against CJP-led protesters, saying police have used lathi charges against unarmed students and voicing particular concern about reports of sexual violence and gender-based abuse; they urge an impartial investigation and an end to blanket assembly bans and internet disruptions, Reuters and Al Jazeera report. India has dismissed the criticism as interference in its internal affairs.

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Freddy Francis, who helped found the CJP's Kerala unit, says he has quit any official role in it, citing "serious disagreements" over the unit's fundraising practices and what he calls immature political statements he felt undermined the movement's character, Kerala Kaumudi reports.

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Delhi Police's Crime Branch, now handling the Jantar Mantar trespassing case against Das and Ranka, summons them and associate Ajinkya Shinde to its Rajouri Garden office on October 22; all three seek more time and do not appear, ThePrint, Deccan Herald, Free Press Journal and The Wire report. No reason for the request is reported, and fresh summons are expected.

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A Special Executive Magistrate court verifies the sureties of Das, Ranka and Shinde and lists the case for the third week of November; Ranka says the verification "went well" and that the three had told police in advance they would miss the Crime Branch's October 22 summons while awaiting new dates, ANI reports.

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The Delhi High Court dismisses AISA president Neha Bora's separate petition against a Special Executive Magistrate's notice ordering her to execute a Rs 10,000 peace bond; Justice Subramonium Prasad rules the law gives the magistrate "sufficient safeguards" and directs that she be given all material relevant to the case, Siasat and APN Live report. The notice remains in force; whether she must furnish the bond immediately or during the inquiry is left to the magistrate.

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The Cockroach Janta Party announced its support for the opposition INDIA bloc's scheduled November 1 rally, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged voter deletions during the Special Intensive Revision exercise, Deccan Chronicle and Outlook report.

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The Madras High Court has issued notices, returnable in six weeks, to the Union government, law-enforcement agencies and CJP spokesperson Saurav Das on a public-interest petition seeking a probe into his identity and nationality, News18 reports. The petitioner, a Chennai resident, alleges Das made contemptuous remarks about the judiciary and asks for his social media accounts to be blocked; these are the petitioner's allegations, and Das's response was not reported.

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge declined to comment on whether Cockroach Janta Party leaders will join the opposition's November 1 rally in Delhi, PTI reports. PTI had earlier erroneously reported that he replied in the negative; his office said he did not wish to comment, and the party has extended support to the rally.

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At the opening Delhi show of his India tour, singer Diljit Dosanjh answered critics of his June remark distancing himself from the CJP's NEET protests, saying “Don't teach Punjabis how to fight”, and raised the censorship dispute over Satluj, his film about activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, Deccan Chronicle reports.

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Cockroach Janta Party president Abhijeet Dipke posted an Instagram note to singer Diljit Dosanjh saying he was hurt by the singer's June comments on the protests and asking to end the row, News18, Hindustan Times and The Tribune report. Hindustan Times reports Diljit had told his Delhi concert audience, without naming the party, "I support all of you. But don't teach Punjabis how to fight."

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Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke said the party backs the INDIA bloc's November 1 Ramlila Maidan rally against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar but will not take part, calling the CJP "a neutral platform", Hindustan Times, Outlook India and The Tribune report. He spoke after meeting Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, who praised the CJP's youth activists and invited them to organise programmes in West Bengal, The Tribune and The Times of India report. Hindustan Times reports about 10,000 police and paramilitary personnel are deployed in central Delhi, with police planning for about 50,000 people while the bloc expects nearly a million.

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Tens of thousands join the INDIA opposition bloc's rally at New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and backed by the Cockroach Janta Party, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over a voter-list revision that removed more than 130 million names, AP and Reuters report. Health Minister J.P. Nadda calls it a "carefully orchestrated drama"; the Election Commission denies favouring any party and says wrongly removed voters can register again.

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An advocate asked Maharashtra's Advocate General for consent to bring criminal contempt proceedings against a Cockroach Janta Party co-convenor over a November 3 post on X about judges hearing a Bombay High Court case, saying it attacked judicial integrity, the Free Press Journal reports. No response from the CJP was reported.

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Delhi government counsel gave consent for criminal contempt proceedings against the Cockroach Janta Party's legal head over posts alleging a Saket court judge acted on outside orders, calling his view prima facie; the Delhi High Court will decide whether the case goes ahead, ETV Bharat reports.

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Union Minister Jitendra Singh alleged at a press conference in Bengaluru on November 5 that CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke received money from US-based donors and co-founder Ashutosh Ranka from Pakistani politicians, saying there was enough evidence. The CJP questioned the credibility of officials making the claim, and Congress leader Priyank Kharge asked the government to produce proof, Outlook India, India Today and News18 reported.

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The Special Executive Magistrate hearing for the CJP leaders summoned over the Jantar Mantar protest listed for the third week of November, and whether the Crime Branch reissues its summons to them. Still being checked.

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