{"id":2859,"date":"2026-10-17T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:04:12","slug":"cockroach-party-founder-released-from-indian-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cockroach&#8217; party founder released from Indian police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke was released from detention on Saturday, a day after his arrest during a police crackdown on protests against the election authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dipke, 31, was detained on Friday in New Delhi as he headed to join a rally that the CJP protest movement had called in the capital\u2019s central Connaught Place district.<\/p>\n<p>He walked out of a police station on Saturday afternoon, waving to the media and giving a thumbs up as he was driven away, an <em>AFP<\/em> photographer saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbhijeet Dipke released,\u201d CJP legal affairs chief Ratna Singh said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties and CJP activists have defied a security crackdown, rallying to demand the resignation of India\u2019s chief election commissioner after accusing the poll body of manipulating voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>The commission, which oversees voting in the world\u2019s most populous nation, has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Two other senior CJP leaders, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, were arrested on October 14 after entering Jantar Mantar, a decades-old protest site that police have declared off-limits for demonstrations. They remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have long alleged that large numbers of undocumented Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh have fraudulently entered India\u2019s electoral rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups and critics however say Modi\u2019s government has eroded democratic freedoms during more than a decade in power, citing pressure on journalists, civil society groups and political opponents \u2013 allegations the government rejects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke was released from detention on Saturday, a day after his arrest during a police crackdown on protests against the election authority. Dipke, 31, was detained on Friday in New Delhi as he headed to join a rally that the CJP protest movement had called in the capital\u2019s central Connaught Place district. He walked out of a police station on Saturday afternoon, waving to the media and giving a thumbs up as he was driven away, an AFP photographer saw. \u201cAbhijeet Dipke released,\u201d CJP&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}