India, Oct. 11 -- Delhi Police on Sunday continued to detain protesters, including CPI(M) leader John Brittas, around Connaught Place as groups returned to renew their demonstrations against chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, even as the Supreme Court ordered that peaceful, unarmed protesters cannot be detained except through the "procedure established by law".

About 100 protesters were packed into two buses and removed from the area. A man was pulled out of a burger joint on suspicion of being a protester. A video of the incident showed him telling the cops that he was simply standing at the spot and that he would not go with the team. The cops later let him go.

Several empty buses for transporting detained people were al...