CJP's Abhijeet Dipke Arrested; Neha Bora Released

Delhi Police arrested CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke on October 16 under preventive provisions ahead of planned demonstrations in the capital, while AISA president Neha Bora, detained the same evening, was subsequently released. According to India Today, police invoked Sections 126 and 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita against Dipke, who is due before a Special Executive Magistrate on October 17. Police said Bora was released after formalities under Section 65 of the Delhi Police Act were completed. The action preceded planned Tiranga demonstrations and protests against the Chief Election Commissioner.

Police alleged that Dipke failed to comply with two notices directing him to stay away from Central Park in Connaught Place, and linked his detention to concerns about a breach of peace. They are also expected to tell the magistrate that he breached conditions attached to a peace bond from an earlier preventive arrest. Dipke had reportedly furnished a Rs 50,000 bond requiring him not to disturb public peace for a year. These are police allegations, not findings by the magistrate. CJP challenged the detention, saying Dipke was carrying the national flag as he left home. In a post on X, the party alleged that he had been taken somewhere undisclosed, that it could no longer contact him and that he was being denied access to lawyers. The supplied report does not independently establish those allegations or include a specific police response to them.

CJP leader Rohan Deshpande also wrote to the station house officer at Mandir Marg police station, seeking Dipke's location, the legal grounds for his detention, the authority that ordered it and the identity of the officer responsible for his custody. He requested that Dipke be allowed to contact colleagues and obtain legal counsel. The arrest follows action against CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who were sent to Tihar Jail earlier in the week for five days over alleged peace-bond violations and trespass at Jantar Mantar. The report said Jantar Mantar had recently lost its designation as a protest site. Dipke's scheduled appearance before the magistrate is the next reported procedural step.