Overview
- On Monday the court remanded Cockroach Janta Party co‑convenors Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka to judicial custody for two more days after a newly appointed Special Executive Magistrate rejected their sureties.
- The magistrate told police he had received threatening messages during an earlier hearing, and Delhi Police registered an FIR against unidentified persons that officials say justified delaying the release process.
- The CJP says authorities repeatedly refused multiple surety bonds to block the leaders’ release and points to specific objections cited by police such as fixed‑deposit verification and lack of Delhi addresses for sureties.
- Das and Ranka were first sent to five days’ judicial custody after they entered the denotified Jantar Mantar protest site and unfurled the national flag, an action the court treated as breaching a prior surety condition.
- The dispute is moving toward higher courts with senior lawyers engaged, and it has widened the political debate over how procedural rules and magistrate safety are being used to regulate protest space and constrain activists.