Security personnel keeping vigil at Election Commission of India while women representatives from AIDWA, SFI, KYS and other groups carried out a protest march against sexual harassment of women protestors and SIR, outside the Delhi Police Headquarters, New Delhi on October 17, 2026.
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Sushil Kumar Verma

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke, who was placed under preventive arrest by the Delhi Police, was released by a Delhi court on Saturday (October 17, 2026) after signing a peace bond. Sporadic protests led by women activists continued for the eighth day against the Chief Election Commissioner and police action.

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Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear academician and columnist Apporvanad Jha, who has submitted that equating the right of peaceful protest with a breach of peace is unwarranted and a ploy by the Central government and the Delhi Police to make preventive detentions.

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In London, members of the Indian diaspora staged a counter-protest in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (October 16, 2026) (local time), opposing demonstrations by the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and other like-minded groups outside the Indian High Commission.