CJP leaders sent to 5-day judicial custody

New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were remanded to five days' judicial custody on Wednesday for allegedly trespassing into a private property to reach Jantar Mantar, a denotified protest site, and violating bonds requiring them to maintain peace, police said. Their associate Ajinkya Shinde was bound down to maintain peace and good behaviour for six months and released on a personal bond and a surety of Rs 5,000, they said.

The CJP leaders were detained after they, along with 11 other activists, allegedly breached barricades and entered the Jantar Mantar area without authorisation, raising slogans against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and erected a national flag there.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke alleged that the Narendra Modi-led government was imposing an "unofficial emergency" after two CJP leaders were sent to five-day judicial custody Dipke sought to know what offence CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka committed by waving the tricolour at Jantar Mantar. "What was their crime?" he asked. Reacting to the action against the CJP leaders, Dipke said, "I want to tell Narendra Modi that if you want to impose emergency in the country, then do it officially."

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