India’s ‘cockroach’ movement leaders detained in jail for five days, party and police say

Daily Maverick · 2026-10-14T11:24:51.000Z · Politics

An Indian court ordered that two leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) be detained in jail for five days, the party and police said on Wednesday, a day after they scaled barricades to enter a historic site popular for protests and chanted slogans demanding the election chief's resignation.

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