India, July 23 -- Police in Mumbai are digitally tracking student protestors, demanding that they share live locations, and even turning up at their homes to pressure them to stay away from the Cockroach Janta Party-led mass agitation that has now spread to several cities and even overseas.

And, yet, refusing to back down, around 2,500 youth, students and activists filled the narrow lanes near Shivaji Park in Dadar, over 200 others turned up at Chembur and many more at Juhu, Colaba and Powai on Wednesday, day five of the agitation.

Even as the mass detentions continued - over 400 protestors were rounded up on Wednesday - police admitted to the electronic surveillance, allegedly violating the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Information ...