The Delhi Police said the trio would be produced before an executive magistrate at Delhi Cantonment Police Station on Sunday (October 11).
New Delhi: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were placed under “preventive arrest” after being detained at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Saturday (October 10).
The three were detained shortly after their flight landed on Saturday morning. They had travelled from Mumbai to Delhi to join a planned protest at Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Delhi Police personnel took them away from the airport and held them at separate police stations. Restrictions were imposed as groups attempted to reach the protest site. The planned gathering follows Saturday’s detentions and the police refusal to permit the original demonstration.
They were kept in custody for 24 hours under preventive detention provisions, police officials said. The action was taken under Sections 126 and 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). Section 126 allows a magistrate to require a person to execute a bond to maintain peace. Section 170 empowers police to make preventive arrests when they believe an offence may be committed and immediate action is necessary. The corresponding provisions under the old Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) were Sections 107 and 151. Security was tightened across Central Delhi, with around 30,000 police personnel deployed and multiple layers of barricades set up at several points. The CJP has called for another protest march and demonstration at Jantar Mantar on Sunday at 10 am.
Police cite BNSS provisions A police officer told The Indian Express that the arrests were made to prevent a possible disturbance to public order.
