Jantar Mantar
- Delhi
No illegal detention, restoration of internet and metro: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Sunday directed that people gathering peacefully should not be illegally detained, as it issued a notice to the Centre on a plea seeking contempt proceedings for…
- Delhi
Dipke declined offer to attend grandmother’s funeral: Delhi Police
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday said Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leader Abhijeet Dipke was informed of his grandmother’s death with due sensitivity and offered assistance to travel to his hometown for…
- Delhi
Supreme Court to hear contempt plea over Delhi metro, train curbs
New Delhi: In a special sitting, the Supreme Court on Sunday said it will grant hearing to all lawyers while dealing with a plea seeking contempt proceedings against authorities for alleged blatant…
- Delhi
CJP leaders released on condition they ‘maintain peace’ for 1 year
New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were under preventive arrest following their detention at the Delhi airport ahead of the Jantar Mantar protest, but…
- Delhi
CJP stir: Journalist’s journey to office in fortress Delhi
New Delhi: Commuters heading to work faced a harrowing time on Saturday as Delhi was blanketed with unprecedented security, following the CJP’s call for a protest at Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation…
- India
CJP to approach Delhi Police to get date for anti-CEC protest
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led Centre thwarted the call for protest at Jantar Mantar to press for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with the Delhi Police detaining over 7,000…
- Delhi
Hindutva goons over peaceful protester: Delhi police biased
New Delhi: In another alleged instance of selective action by the Delhi Police on Saturday, October 10, independent journalists reported that while ordinary citizens were stopped from assembling or protesting, Hindutva groups…
- India
Learnt lesson last time: July protesters return with masks, goggles
New Delhi: With digital posters, political artwork and advice on how to protect themselves, many protesters who took part in the July demonstration returned to support those joining the Cockroach Janta Party’s…
- Bangalore
BJP operates by ‘suppressing’ voices, says Karnataka CM
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday, October 10, alleged that the BJP operates by “suppressing” voices and silencing people. Speaking to reporters, he said the government should listen to the…
- India
Barricades, detentions fail to dampen protesters’ spirit at Jantar Mantar
New Delhi: Two hours on a scooty, a long walk from Nizamuddin after an auto ride, and a cab journey that went round in circles before finally dropping its passenger near the…
- Delhi
India not democracy, a dictatorship run by PM, Shah: Priyanka
New Delhi: Amid Delhi Police’s crackdown on protesters in the national capital, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday, October 10, alleged that India is “not a democracy” anymore but a “dictatorship”…
- Hyderabad
Delhi Police detains 2 Siasat.com reporters, breaks their mics
Hyderabad/New Delhi: Siasat.com reporters Mohammed Aslam Hussain and Sheikh Abdul Mukarram, who are in New Delhi to cover the Jantar Mantar protests, were detained early Saturday morning (October 10). Their mic was…
- Mumbai
Are they Chambal dacoits? Dipke’s parents slam police detentions
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: CJP convenor Abhijeet Dipke’s parents on Saturday accused the government of not respecting democracy as they questioned the detention of their son and the deployment of a large police force,…
- India
Abhijeet Dipke’s 85-year-old grandmother dies
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke’s paternal grandmother passed away at the age of 85 in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district on Saturday, October 10, following a prolonged illness, family sources said. Savitribai Shankarrao…
- India
Rohtak Police stop protesters, end up surrounded by villagers
Haryana: With large-scale police detentions occurring across New Delhi, neighbouring Haryana has pulled an uno-reverse: Villagers in Rohtak district are refusing to let police personnel leave after they arrived to detain people…
