India, Oct. 14 -- A Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) on Wednesday sent Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka to five days of judicial custody after the Delhi Police argued that "there was a presumption that the accused might carry out a crime" if released, their counsel Abhisht Hela said.

According to Hela, the police argued before the magistrate that the two leaders had called on people to gather at Jantar Mantar, thereby committing criminal trespass. The police also contended that they had violated a bond signed before a Special Executive Magistrate at Delhi Cantt Police Station on Sunday, in which they had undertaken not to breach the peace. Track anti-CEC protest LIVE updates here.

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