India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement founder and leaders released from detention after Delhi protest crackdown
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A New Delhi court Sunday released the founder and leaders of a surging youth-led political movement who were detained in a crackdown that stifled a major protest a day earlier in the Indian capital.
Abhijeet Dipke was detained along with other leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Saturday as their plane landed in New Delhi, according to the group. Footage showed Dipke shouting “go ahead and arrest us! Victory to Mother India! Long live the revolution!” Meanwhile in central Delhi, hundreds of the group’s followers were also detained.
On Sunday, the party’s legal head Ratna Singh said on X that the executive magistrate court released Dipke and the other two leaders on the condition there will be “no breach of peace for one year.” Delhi police on X confirmed the release, and conditions.