The All India Students’ Association alleged that Delhi Police has illegally taken away the phones of Neha Bora, President of AISA and Nirma, an AISA activist, at Maidan Garhi detention centre. Activist and scientist Sonam Wangchuk said that he will be “compelled” to consider an Anshan Fast or Padyatra March if detained protestors are not released by tomorrow.

Even as the Delhi Police — who denied permission for the demonstration — detained founder Abhijeet Dipke and other CJP leaders, including Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka as soon as they landed in Delhi, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said the protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will carry on with or without its leadership.

Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained when they landed in Delhi to attend the protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday (October 10, 2026). After being detained, the three leaders were taken to three different locations in Delhi-NCR, said a source in intelligence agencies.

Earlier, CJP legal affairs head Ratna Singh told The Hindu on Saturday (October 10, 2026) that she had been detained outside her residence in Jangpura, New Delhi, amid a police crackdown ahead of a planned protest in the national capital. Delhi Police detained over 500 protesters across the city ahead of Saturday’s (October 10, 2026) demonstration.

Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal was detained by the Delhi Police outside his house in Lodhi Estate on Saturday (October 10, 2026) when he was on his way to join the protest at Jantar Mantar.

In a video shared by Mr. Kejriwal on X, he was seen inside a bus alongside AAP MP Sanjay Jha. He urged the people to come out in large numbers and support the protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The former Delhi Chief Minister earlier in the day slammed the Centre over the “worse than Emergency” security clampdown in central Delhi to thwart the protest and the detention of the outfit’s top leadership.

Former West Bengal Chief Minister and Mamata All India Trinamool Congress (MAITC) chief Mamata Banerjee and other party leaders were detained by the Delhi Police from a bus stop in Delhi’s South Avenue, where they held a dharna.

Ms. Banerjee and other MAITC leaders were scheduled to join today’s protest at Jantar Mantar. However, they were denied permission to leave. So Ms. Banerjee and others staged a sit in at South Avenue bus stop with placards such as ‘EC looted Bengal’, ‘Save Democracy, Save India.’ Party MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’ Brien reside in this locality. Later, a Delhi Police officer confirmed to The Hindu that Ms. Banerjee and her supporters were detained.

Mumbai police detained Tushar Gandhi, president of Hum Bharat Ke Log, and a few other organisers of the Mumbai protest on Saturday (October 10, 2026). The detentions occurred ahead of a protest at August Kranti Maidan. The protest supported a demonstration by the Cockroach Janata Party at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

Police picked up Mr. Gandhi at the National College intersection. Police took him to the DN Nagar police station. “Three-time Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal brutally taken into custody by Delhi Police, for demanding Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation. Modi Ji: how many people will you put behind bars to save Gyanesh Kumar?” Atishi Marlena, a senior AAP leader said in a post on X.

A group of lawyers was released on Saturday (October 10, 2026) after being detained for nearly two hours while staging a protest outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. The lawyers, who were taken to the Yamuna Sports Complex, were released following interventions by Supreme Court bar bodies.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) passed resolutions addressed to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, seeking the immediate release of the detained lawyers.

Amid a massive police crackdown in Delhi to thwart a youth protest demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over large-scale deletions of names from electoral rolls, which has seen several thousand detentions, many journalists covering the protests were also detained at several locations. Some were picked up from near their homes, far from the protest site.

The journalists detained included those from the Hindi daily Navbharat Times and the digital news platforms Scroll. in and Newslaundry. They were all released later. Scroll. In’s Executive Editor Supriya Sharma posted on X about the detention of the platform’s political editor Shoaib Daniyal and another colleague, Ayush Tiwari. She said Mr. Daniyal was detained from a residential colony in South Delhi, far away from the protest activities planned by Cockroach Janata Party and several student activist groups in Central Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (October 10, 2026) said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar would go, and so would the Modi government, and that the repair of democracy would then begin. In a post in Hindi on X, Mr. Gandhi said, “Gyanesh Kumar will go. This government will go. Then the repair of democracy will begin.” He also tagged, on X, a video clip of his speech to INDIA bloc MPs at the Central Hall of Parliament.

Mr. Gandhi had, on Friday (October 9, 2026), said there was a “much deeper problem” than CEC Kumar, and that it required the termination of the current government, asserting that if the Opposition continued to push the way it had over the past few days, the government would fall. Opposition protests had shaken the foundations of the government, which was now scared, Mr. Gandhi had told INDIA bloc MPs at the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan.

The Narendra Modi government has turned the “mother of democracy” into a “muzzled democracy,” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said as the principal Opposition party attacked the government over “converting Delhi into a fortress” to stop protests called by youth on Saturday (October 10, 2026). “The cowardice of the BJP-RSS is on full display today,” Mr. Kharge said in a post on X.

“Our youth, students, lawyers, journalists, social activists, farm union leaders, YouTubers, content creators, everyone who is questioning this regime are being detained. Modi Govt has turned the ‘Mother of Democracy’ into a ‘Muzzled Democracy’!” he said. Mr. Kharge’s strong condemnation comes amid questions over the Congress’s reluctance to explicitly endorse the protests called by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and several student and youth organisations.

A Supreme Court advocate on Saturday (October 9, 2026) filed a contempt petition in the apex court on the continued “blanket shutdown across transit corridors” to and within the national capital. Advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi said the shutdown was in clear violation of the October 9 order of the Supreme Court, which had emphasised that the authorities must not cause any hardship or suffering to ordinary commuters through a blanket ban and impose restrictions in a suitable and regulated manner only ahead of and during the October 10 protests for the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Mr. Tripathi is the lead petitioner who moved the Supreme Court on the police action against youth protestors on July 20 during the NEET-UG paper leak protests. He has sought a judicial order to initiate contempt proceedings against Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, IAS; Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar, IPS and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Chairperson D. Thara, IAS, for alleged willful non-compliance with the court’s directions.

BJP president Nitin Nabin on Saturday (October 10, 2026) accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and the CJP of attempting to destabilise the country with the backing of foreign forces, and asserted that the government will deal sternly with their “ill intentions,” while the party workers will foil their design on the ground.

Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Nabin alleged that Mr. Gandhi, Mr. Kejriwal and the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) are resorting to create anarchy because they “cannot digest the country’s progress” under Prime MInister Narendra Modi’s leadership.

Elon Musk on Saturday (October 10, 2026) stepped up his attack against industrialist Mukesh Ambani, sharing screenshots of media reports alleging that a Reliance-funded firm helped boost BJP campaigns on social media and that a Reliance-linked company made large political donations to the ruling party.

The latest post by Mr. Musk on X featured an Al Jazeera report from 2022 headlined “How a Reliance-funded firm boosts BJP’s campaigns on Facebook” and an archived Indian Express report from 2024 on Qwik Supply, which reported that the Reliance-linked firm donated ₹385 crore to the BJP and ₹25 crore to the Shiv Sena through electoral bonds.