New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke's paternal grandmother, Savitribai Dipke, died on Saturday at the age of 85, hours after he was detained by Delhi Police upon arriving in the national capital, ETV Bharat reported.

Sources told ETV Bharat that Savitribai had been unwell for the past few days and died on Saturday morning at the family's native village of Santuk Pimpri in Maharashtra's Hingoli district.

The news of her death came hours after Dipke was detained by Delhi Police aboard a flight from Mumbai to Delhi, where he was travelling with fellow CJP activists Saurav Das and Ashutosh to participate in the party's proposed protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Dipke's parents, ...