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Three CJP activists get five-day judicial custody at Jantar Mantar

By Drooid · Oct 14, 2026, 10:12 AM UTC · How we work

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Rahul defends protest

CJP activists Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde were placed in judicial custody for trespassing at Jantar Mantar on October 14, 2026.
Rahul Gandhi broke his silence, backed the CJP on X, calling the Tricolour flag-waving protest peaceful and youths’ jailing cowardice.
AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj and CPIML’s Dipankar Bhattacharya called custody a dictatorship and urged reclaiming Jantar Mantar.
Parties announced a rally for November 1 to demand Jantar Mantar’s re-notification and CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.

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Safeguarding constitutional order

Three CJP activists—Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde—were placed in five-day judicial custody for trespassing at Jantar Mantar on October 14, 2026.
Right-leaning officials portrayed the arrests as essential to safeguard the constitutional order and curb unlawful protests.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale dismissed opposition vote-theft claims, asserting the Election Commission’s independence.
Delhi police de-notified Jantar Mantar as a protest site on October 14, naming three alternative grounds.

Blindspot

Delhi police de-notified Jantar Mantar as a protest site on October 14, 2026, and listed three alternative grounds where demonstrations could be held, according to right-leaning officials.
Within this story's sources, this angle appears mainly in Right-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Center-leaning coverage.

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Historical Context

In June 1975 Indira Gandhi invoked emergency powers, arrested opposition leaders such as Jayaprakash Narayan and Morarji Desai, and placed over 1.2 million citizens in preventive detention. The crackdown banned public assemblies. Today, the detention of CJP activists Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde and the de-notification of Jantar Mantar echo that 1975 suppression of dissent.

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Rahul defends protest

CJP activists Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde were placed in judicial custody for trespassing at Jantar Mantar on October 14, 2026.
Rahul Gandhi broke his silence, backed the CJP on X, calling the Tricolour flag-waving protest peaceful and youths’ jailing cowardice.
AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj and CPIML’s Dipankar Bhattacharya called custody a dictatorship and urged reclaiming Jantar Mantar.
Parties announced a rally for November 1 to demand Jantar Mantar’s re-notification and CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.

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