India, July 24 -- Nisarga Adhikary, the 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher whose disclosures about CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) portal fed into this year's series of controversies around exams, on Friday joined the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. He posted on X a photo with CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and NCP (SP) spokesperson Anish Gawande.

"The energy here is truly crazy," he wrote.

His appearance sparked celebratory comments by fellow Gen-Z protesters that "the hacker is here now!".

It comes as the protest enters its seventh week, with a government delegation and CJP representatives having held a fresh round of talks on Friday, and the deadlock persisting over the demand for education minister Dhar...