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CJP protest in Delhi: Key facts from October 10
Delhi Police detained hundreds of people, including the Cockroach Janta Party’s founder at the airport and a group of lawyers marching from the Supreme Court, as the party’s October 10 protest against the Chief Election Commissioner was blocked, according to ThePrint’s live reporting.
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026.
Police figure: about 150 detained in the morning and about 500 more in groups.
Delhi was divided into 20 zones, each with a detention centre, according to police.
Deployment: about 23,000 paramilitary personnel in 221 companies.
No confirmed injuries or violence were reported in the live blog.
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.
Police used buses, including prison vehicles, to take detainees away, according to ThePrint.
Al Jazeera reported that the party says thousands of its members were detained ahead of the protest, which is the party’s own claim and not an independent count.
The figures of 150, 500 and thousands come from different sources and are not reconciled in the reports.
LatestLY reported that Delhi Police also detained more than 100 people with criminal records in overnight operations as a precaution.
About 23,000 central paramilitary personnel, in 221 companies, were deployed in Delhi from October 8 to 12, according to ThePrint.
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