India, Sept. 27 -- Ashutosh Ranka and other Cockroach Janta Party volunteers, who were detained by the Assam Police earlier in the day, have now been released, the CJP co-convenor said in a social post media.

Over 30 CJP workers, including Ashutosh Ranka and three other members of its central committee, were detained by Assam Police in Guwahati ahead of the party's scheduled regional volunteers' meeting.

The meeting was set for 10am at Assam Shree Parshuram Seva Sadan on Kharga Choudhury Road in Athgaon. However, the venue was later shifted to Chowdhury Tila, opposite the Assam Secretariat, after organisers alleged that the original venue had been pressured into cancelling the booking.

"The illegal detention by Assam Police has finally...