Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party chief Abhijeet Dipke ahead of a planned Tiranga march in Connaught Place, citing that the location is not a notified protest site and deploying heavy security under Section 163 to maintain order.

Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party chief Abhijeet Dipke ahead of a planned Tiranga march in Connaught Place, citing that the location is not a notified protest site and deploying heavy security under Section 163 to maintain order.

Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party chief Abhijeet Dipke ahead of a planned Tiranga march in Connaught Place, citing that the location is not a notified protest site and deploying heavy security under Section 163 to maintain order.

The Delhi Police on Friday detained Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) chief Abhijeet Dipke and All India Students' Association (AISA) head Neha Bora ahead of the planned Tiranga march in Delhi's Connaught Place.

Bora and a number of other protesters were detained near Mandi House as they were making their way to Central Park to join the Tiranga march.

The Friday protest comes after CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were remanded to judicial custody after they entered Jantar Mantar on October 13 to unfurl the national flag, even after the Centre had de-notified it as a protest site.

Dipke's arrest comes after more than 20 Delhi Police personnel served him a notice at his home on Friday, barring him from leading the 'Lehra do Tiranga' protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at Central Park.

The notice had said that Connaught Place was not a notified protest site, warning him that a protest there would impact the lives of "over 15 lakh traders and their employees".

Visuals from the site of the Connaught Place protests also showed a heavy deployment of Rapid Action Force (RAF) and other forces to prevent any rallies in the area amid the enforcement of Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).

Though the Delhi High Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Tiranga march to take place at Connaught Place, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) had later declared that Central Park would be closed on October 16 and 17 due to the protests.

The late-night closure had spiralled into claims by the lakhs of traders, mentioned earlier, who claimed they would lose about ₹200 crore per day in revenue due to the closures.

This led to Supreme Court intervention, with a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi saying that compensation would be considered for their losses.

"If there is a loss of business, and we hold that it is unlawful to your clients, we will exercise our powers under constitutional tort jurisdiction. Let's cross that bridge when it comes," Justice Bagchi had said, as per a PTI report.