India, Oct. 9 -- Delhi has imposed sweeping security restrictions ahead of a protest called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, deploying 25,000 police and paramilitary personnel, shutting entry and exit gates at 57 metro stations and suspending mobile internet services in a four-kilometre radius around the protest site.

The measures follow Delhi Police's refusal to grant permission for the October 10 demonstration against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Police said the arrangements were intended to prevent an unauthorised gathering and maintain law and order amid the possibility of large-scale mobilisation.

Mobile internet services within the specified radius of Jantar Mantar will remain suspende...