Guwahati, Oct. 19 -- The release of Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka remained pending for a sixth day on Monday, following a brief hearing at Mandir Marg police station on Sunday that lasted barely 8 to 10 minutes despite party members waiting nearly five hours.

The two were taken into custody on October 13 after allegedly climbing a locked gate to enter Jantar Mantar, which had earlier been de-notified as a protest site. They and other CJP workers displayed the Tricolour there before being detained and placed under preventive arrest.

A special executive magistrate subsequently sent Das and Ranka to five days of judicial custody.

CJP representatives said the special executive magistrate reached the pol...