NEW DELHI, Oct. 14 -- The Delhi police arrested three members of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) because there was a serious apprehension that they would again violate the law and instigate others to do the same if released on bail, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.

The arrests come a day after police detained 14 CJP workers after they scaled an iron gate of an office premises to enter the now-denotified Jantar Mantar protest site. To be sure, the area has been cordoned off with police barricades since the last week of September ahead of the BJP's October 10 project. Heavy security continues to be deployed in the area.

Police said CJP members Sourav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and Ajinkya Shinde were arrested under preventive provision...