A Special Executive Magistrate extended the judicial custody of CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das by two days today. The pair got arrested on October 13 for scaling locked gates at Jantar Mantar. CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke said, "The state is deliberately prolonging Ashu and Saurav's illegal arrest."

The judicial custody of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das was extended by two days today. The two were initially handed a five-day judicial custody on October 14. They were arrested for entering Delhi's Jantar Mantar, which was recently denotified as a designated protest site, by scaling its locked gates. They were detained on October 13 and sent to five days of judicial custody the next day.

Both Ranka and Das were presented before a Special Executive Magistrate at Mandir Marg police station for the proceedings before being taken back to Tihar Jail. They will next be produced on Wednesday.

The CJP has alleged that authorities were deliberately delaying proceedings to prevent the release of its leaders. The CJP has maintained that the two leaders entered the premises to unfurl the national flag and raise slogans, while the party has continued to challenge the decision to remove Jantar Mantar's status as a designated protest site.

"The state is deliberately prolonging Ashu and Saurav's illegal arrest by using every dirty trick in the book to delay court proceedings and prevent their release. They have no legal grounds to keep them behind bars, so they are resorting to delaying tactics to keep them there," CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke said in a social media post yesterday.

The party's legal head, Ratna Singh, also accused the Delhi Police and state authorities of obstructing the proceedings before the Special Executive Magistrate, alleging that a hearing scheduled for noon was delayed by several hours.

The arrests took place against the backdrop of the CJP's campaign against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The CJP has alleged that the revision exercise threatens voters' rights, making it a central issue in its protests against the Election Commission. It has also opposed the denotification of Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site, arguing through its actions that the change should not prevent its members from demonstrating.