Dipke’s father, too, backed his son, stating that the police can only arrest an ordinary person, and not criminals like rapists and terrorists.
On a day the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) had called for a mega protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, its founder Abhijeet Dipke had told his mother to stay away from the television and mobile phone. But she still did, and learnt how her son was detained from an aircraft, in what she described as “wrong”.
The CJP, an outfit born out of a movement against paper leaks, had called for a mega protest at Jantar Mantar today over alleged irregularities in the voter registration and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) processes. READ | Detained Abhijeet Dipke Hands Over CJP Protest Baton To Ajinkya Shinde Visuals showed Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka, and Saurav Das being detained amid an in-flight drama. The police personnel then took them to different detention centres in Delhi and Gurugram. Rapists and terrorists aren’t caught. They don’t arrest those who flee with the country’s money. The police denied permission, arguing that they were late in informing the authorities. Besides the CJP leaders, hundreds of their supporters were taken into preventive custody overnight. Besides, dozens of metro stations were shut, and hundreds of trains were cancelled to prevent a huge turnout like the July paper leak protests.
READ | “GenZ Deserves Better Than Emer-GenZ”: Shashi Tharoor Slams “Regressive” Delhi Curbs For CJP Protest “For the first time in the country, a student has been arrested on a plane. But they immediately arrest an ordinary person,” he said, slamming the police action.
