India, Oct. 10 -- Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and spokespersons Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained seconds after landing in Delhi on Saturday, with videos posted by the outfit showing cops entering the aircraft before passengers began deboarding.

Dipke, Das and Ranka had travelled to Delhi to participate in the protest proposed by the CJP at Jantar Mantar against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the special intensive revision exercise.

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 "viol...