The Cockroach Janta Party is a satirical, unregistered youth movement, according to PTI.

It demands electoral reforms and the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner.

It was behind the October 10 protest call.

Its founder and two leaders were detained at Delhi airport.

The party plans to march again on Sunday.

The Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP, said on the night of Saturday, October 10, 2026 that it had no contact for about 10 hours with three of its leaders, according to The Federal’s live blog.

The three are founder Abhijeet Dipke and leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka.

They were detained by Delhi Police after a flight from Mumbai landed at Delhi’s IGI airport at about 10:30 am, according to ThePrint and The Federal.

Dipke was streaming live on Instagram at the time, according to The Federal.

The CJP said in a post on X that the three were taken to an undisclosed location and denied access to their lawyers.

The party described the three as abducted by Delhi Police, and that is the party’s description and not a finding.

Delhi Police has not publicly commented on the detentions, according to PTI.

Police had refused permission for the Jantar Mantar protest, citing law and order concerns, procedural deficiencies in the intimation and alleged past violations of protest conditions.

The CJP’s organisation in-charge, Ajinkya Shinde, will lead the protest at Jantar Mantar while the three leaders are in detention.

Shinde said that the movement would continue until Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resigns.

The CJP said that it is not backing down and will march to Jantar Mantar again on Sunday, October 11, and stay until its demands are met, according to The Federal.

The party’s demands are the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner and a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.

Terminal 3, Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi (file image), Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Petitioners challenged the closure of 57 Metro stations and the cancellation of long-distance trains.

The court said that an entire city cannot be shut down because of protests.

It cited commuters from Gurugram, Greater Noida and other NCR towns.

It allowed regulated movement and did not strike down the restrictions.

The Solicitor General said an alternative protest site would be considered.

It directed the authorities to give due publicity to their decisions on Metro and railway services and to issue a traffic advisory.

It said that restrictions must be proportionate and must not cause undue hardship to the public, according to Bar and Bench.

The court said that an entire city cannot be shut down because of protests, according to The Quint.

It cited the thousands of commuters who travel every day from Gurugram, Greater Noida and other parts of the NCR to Delhi for work and education.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta defended the measures as meant to maintain law and order.

The Solicitor General told the bench that the competent authority would consider designating a place other than Jantar Mantar for peaceful protests.

Senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Singhvi and Prashant Bhushan argued against the restrictions, and Singhvi said that preventive measures of this scale could not be justified when no incident had occurred.

The order does not strike down the restrictions outright, and authorities can still regulate the movement of Metro and trains.

On October 10, entry and exit were limited at 45 Metro stations until 6 pm, and interchange was available everywhere except at New Delhi station, according to Careerindia.

About 45 stations had been closed from 9 pm on October 9 for security reasons, according to ThePrint.

Mobile internet was shut within a four-kilometre radius of Janpath and Kartavya Path from 10 pm on October 9 to 10 pm on October 10, according to Careerindia.

Delhi Metro station (representative image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Police said about 150 people were detained in the morning and about 500 more arriving in groups.

The CJP says its founder and two co-conveners were detained at the airport and taken to an unknown location.

Al Jazeera reported that the party says thousands of its members were detained.

That is the party’s own claim and not an independent count.

The Supreme Court Bar Association has asked the Chief Justice of India to intervene.

Police said Delhi had been divided into 20 zones, each with a detention centre, and that three stadiums were designated as detention centres.

The CJP said its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, and two co-conveners were detained by police who boarded their plane after it landed at Delhi’s IGI airport at about 10:30 am.

The CJP said the three were taken to an unknown location.

The party also said that its legal spokesperson and its policy head were detained, and that a YouTuber was detained from a home in Gurugram.

At about 11 am, police detained a group of lawyers who were marching from the Supreme Court to Jantar Mantar.

At about noon, the Supreme Court Bar Association asked the Chief Justice of India for urgent intervention and for an examination of the detentions and the reported use of force.

The CPI(M) said that former Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and other party leaders were detained, and Tushar Gandhi was reported detained in Mumbai while heading to a planned protest.

Newslaundry said that three of its journalists were detained and their official phones seized, and Scroll said its reporter was detained.

Police used buses, including prison vehicles, to take detainees away, according to ThePrint.

Al Jazeera reported that the party says thousands of its members were detained ahead of the protest, which is the party’s own claim and not an independent count.

Delhi Police barricade (representative image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0