An Indian court yesterday ordered the release of two ‘cockroach’ movement leaders, local media reported, after they were detained last week for demonstrating at a historic protest venue in violation of a ban.
A local court in the Indian capital of New Delhi ordered the release of Cockroach Janata Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das late yesterday, legal website Live Law said
Das and Ranka were among 14 people who scaled barricades on October 13 to enter the Jantar Mantar observatory in central Delhi, a day after it was removed from a list of designated protest sites.
The group unfurled the national flag and chanted slogans demanding the chief election commissioner’s resignation, before police detained them, with a court later sending them to prison for five days. On Monday, their prison stay was extended for two more days
The youth-led CJP, opposition parties and left-wing student organisations have held protests this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar quit over a revision of voter lists they say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party.
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