India, Oct. 12 -- The second day of the Cockroach Janta Party's protest witnessed detentions of more than 700 persons, some of whom were detained for almost seven hours, with their phones snatched and taken to detention centres, which are 30-40 km away.

On Sunday evening, many lawyers and activists posted SOS messages on X and other social media platforms to seek help for the detainees.

HT spoke to two of the detainees who shared how they were detained, targeted, assaulted and whisked off in prison vans to Pandwalan Khurd.

One of the detainees, Arjun Unnikrishnan (30), is a researcher and a lawyer who was at Connaught Place around 3-3.30 pm on Sunday to protest against the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, when he was detaine...