India, Oct. 8 -- With INDIA bloc leaders marching to Jantar Mantar seeking CEC Gyanesh Kumar's removal, the Delhi Police on Wednesday reiterated that permission to protest at the site has to be sought 10 days in advance and gatherings not exceeding 1,000 people.

The clarification comes amid heightened security in central Delhi, with the INDIA bloc holding a protest demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) planning a protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10.

Under the Delhi Police's standing order issued in compliance with a 2018 Supreme Court judgment in Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan vs Union of India, protests, demo...