India, Oct. 9 -- Mobile internet services will remain suspended within a 4-km radius of the Janpath-Kartavya Path crossing in New Delhi for 24 hours from 10 pm on Friday, following approval from the Union Home Ministry.

The suspension will remain in force until 10 pm on Saturday, October 10, with instructions issued to suspend all forms of mobile internet technology in the specified area.

The move comes ahead of a protest called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday alleged that thousands of young people across the c...