India, Oct. 21 -- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activists Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were ordered to be released by a Delhi Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) court on Wednesday after their sureties were accepted.

The two activists were detained by Delhi Police on October 13 after they climbed the gates of the barricaded Jantar Mantar protest site. They were remanded to judicial custody for five days on October 14, with the SEM court extending their custody by another two days on October 19.

Before Wednesday's release order, the police had requested that their judicial custody be extended by three more days. However, Assistant Commissioner of Police Ritu Raj, who was acting as the SEM, accepted the sureties furnished by the two activis...