India, Oct. 11 -- YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, who was apprehended by Gurugram Police before he was expected to join the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) proposed protest at Jantar Mantar, said in a video statement on Sunday that he was "kidnapped", hours after he was released late on Saturday.

"I was not arrested or detained, I was KIDNAPPED," he captioned an Instagram post.

According to officials, Rathee was released at 3 am and handed over to his family. He was detained at around 9.30 am on Saturday at his home in Kendriya Vihar Society, Sector 56, Gurugram, ahead of the CJP's planned protest against chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, which authorities later thwarted.

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