Delhi Police detained hundreds of people on October 10.
The CJP’s founder was detained at the airport, the party said.
Lawyers marching from the Supreme Court were detained.
The protest demands the Chief Election Commissioner’s resignation.
The Bar Association has asked the CJI to intervene.
The Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP, had called a protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
Delhi Police had denied permission for the protest, saying the intimation came too late, according to ThePrint.
At about 9:45 am, police said that about 150 protesters had been detained that morning and that about 500 people arriving in groups had also been detained.
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.
Delhi Police barricade (representative image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
