Anti-CEC protest LIVE | CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke released by Delhi court after signing peace bond

Security personnel keeping vigil at Election Commission of India while women representatives from AIDWA, SFI, KYS and other groups carried out a protest march against sexual harassment of women protestors and SIR, outside the Delhi Police Headquarters, New Delhi on October 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke, who was placed under preventive arrest by the Delhi Police, was released by a Delhi court on Saturday (October 17, 2026) after signing a peace bond. Sporadic protests led by women activists continued for the eighth day against the Chief Election Commissioner and police action.

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Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear academician and columnist Apporvanad Jha, who has submitted that equating the right of peaceful protest with a breach of peace is unwarranted and a ploy by the Central government and the Delhi Police to make preventive detentions.