India, Oct. 11 -- Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday responded to a Delhi Police video showing him declining an offer to return home after being informed of his grandmother's death, saying police had denied him access to his phone "even for a couple of minutes" to contact his cousin.

"I had requested to let me speak to my cousin who lives with my grandmother. Asked for my phone just for a couple of minutes so I could at least take out the number of my cousin," he wrote in a post on X.

"Why didn't Delhi Police let me use my phone? I had also asked for a call with a lawyer, which was again denied."

"At 3:30 in the morning, Delhi Police asks me to call my father and inform him that tomorrow I'll be going in jail for a ...