India jails Cockroach movement leaders over protest site breach

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 14 Oct, 06:57 · Archive

Two leaders of India's Cockroach movement have been sent to jail for five days for breaching a ban on protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar.

Two leaders of India's youth-led Cockroach movement have been sent to jail for five days. A court ordered Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, leaders of the Cockroach Janata party (CJP), to spend five days in Delhi's Tihar prison for jumping over police barricades at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, a historic protest site that has been closed by authorities. They held up slogans and waved the Indian flag at the site.

The CJP said the action demonstrated against the brutal crackdown on youth protesters in Delhi over the weekend and against the decision to shut down Jantar Mantar as the capital's designated protest site, a status it had held for more than 30 years. Abhijit Dipke, the founder of the CJP, said in a social media post: 'You cannot denotify the resistance.'

The movement was protesting against election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing him of overseeing mass disenfranchisement of Indian voters. The CJP, alongside opposition parties and student groups, have demanded Kumar's resignation, claiming he revised the electoral roll to advantage the ruling Narendra Modi government. The election commission has denied favouring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol.

How it is being reported

• Leaders of India’s Cockroach party jailed for violating ban on protest siteAshutosh Ranka and Saurav Das will spend spend five days in prison for entering Delhi’s Jantar Mantar – a historic protest site that has been closed by authorities Two leaders of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement have been sent to jail for five days for violating a ban on protests at a site in central Delhi. A court ordered that Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, leaders of the Cockroach Janata party (CJP) movement, spend five days in Delhi’s Tihar prison for jumping over police barricades, holding up slogans and waving the Indian flag at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. Continue reading...Guardian World · 14 Oct, 06:29
• India news: 'Cockroach' leaders sent to judicial custody amid protest crackdownThree of India's Cockroach movement leaders will spend five days in jail over charges of trespassing into what was until recently a designated protest site. In other news, Marco Rubio is set to visit India. DW has more.DW News · 14 Oct, 06:08

In this story: Ashutosh Ranka · Saurav Das · Gyanesh Kumar · Abhijit Dipke · Cockroach Janata Party · Delhi · Jantar Mantar · Tihar prison

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