New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Sunday accused authorities of "deliberately prolonging" the release of party members Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who have been in judicial custody since October 14 after allegedly scaling the locked gates of Jantar Mantar, which had been denotified as a designated protest site. The Delhi Police denied allegations of deliberately delaying their release, saying the prescribed procedure was being followed and that the surety bonds submitted by the party were faulty. Further, police added that an FIR had been filed on Sunday after the special executive magistrate (SEM) hearing the case reported receiving threats. The SEM at Mandir Marg has yet to pass an order on the release of the two men, who are lodged in Tihar jail. They were detained on October 13 after entering the denotified protest site with other CJP members to unfurl the national flag, and were subsequently arrested. In an order dated October 14, the SEM noted that Das and Ranka had breached a surety bond signed by them on October 11 to maintain peace. The order said they were being remanded to judicial custody for five days because "no sound surety" had been produced at that stage. The CJP said it had submitted multiple surety bonds since October 15 but alleged that police officials kept raising fresh objections, preventing the two leaders from being released. "They have no legal grounds to keep them behind bars, so they are resorting to delaying tactics to keep them there," CJP leader Abhijit Dipke wrote on X. Aafreen Nawaz, party's national secretary, told HT that members had been visiting Mandir Marg police station for four days to complete the process. She alleged officials had rejected successive surety submissions on different grounds, including objections to fixed deposits and the Delhi addresses of the people standing surety. "One day, DCP Sachin Sharma delayed and didn't sign the bond. They then said our fixed deposits are not proper. But they already have bank stamps," she said. Ratna Singh, the party's head of legal affairs, also alleged that the hearing, scheduled for noon, was delayed until 5pm. The Delhi Police said the SEM had reported receiving threatening messages on Sunday evening and that an FIR had been registered in New Delhi on his complaint under provisions of criminal intimidation and threats....