India, Oct. 10 -- Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and spokespersons Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were on Saturday detained seconds after landing in Delhi, ahead of the proposed protest at Jantar Mantar.

A senior Delhi police official confirmed the detentions, saying teams from the southwest district police had been deployed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. In its statement, the CJP "strongly condemned" the detentions as "authoritarian", terming it a "violation of freedom of movement."

In its statement, the CJP said that it "strongly condemns the authoritarian detention of CJP leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka straight from their flight upon landing in Delhi."

"This pre-planned interception ...