Overview
- Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke was granted conditional bail and released after signing a peace bond on Saturday, October 17, following his preventive arrest while he was heading to the CJP’s ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ flag march.
- Two other CJP leaders, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, remain in judicial custody after being remanded for entering restricted protest sites, and several other activists have been detained and later released.
- Delhi Police invoked provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita to impose prohibitory orders, produce organisers before Special Executive Magistrates, cordon off Central Park in Connaught Place and register multiple FIRs for alleged violations.
- Opposition figures including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav have pressed allegations of large-scale bogus entries in the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, publishing a booklet that claims about 1.92 million suspect voters.
- Protest leaders plan further actions such as a farmers’ march to Delhi on October 23, and the use of BNSS preventive powers and SEM proceedings is likely to shape how future demonstrations are organised and policed.