Hyderabad: Four volunteers of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) from Telangana were temporarily detained by Madhya Pradesh police at Bhopal railway station on Oct 8 while travelling to New Delhi, ahead of the party’s Oct 10 protest at Jantar Mantar, local representatives of the organisation said on Friday.
Eventually around 9 pm on Friday, the cops took the four volunteers to the Bhopal station.
They also refused to allow us to continue with our onward journey when they found out that we were heading to the protest,” Korani said. There is no way we can attend the Jantar Mantar protest now,” Korani told TOI. he had deactivated his SIM card and managed to escape,” said Sreeja Reddy, CJP’s south zone coordinator While CJP’s AP state coordinator Stephen Pramod was also on the same train. Hyd protest today The volunteers said that CJP will hold a protest in Hyderabad on Saturday not only to protest against SIR but also over the alleged illegal detentions which according to them were a “clear attempt at suppressing public’s democratic right to protest peacefully”.
“Though we repeatedly asked the cops why they had illegally detained us, they refused to offer any answers. “Four policemen — two of them in uniform — are accompanying us back to Warangal from where we will take a bus to Hyderabad. “Our local lawyers who approached the Gwalior police were refused any update. “Detentions like these will not deter us from coming out in large numbers and hold the govt accountable as and when needed. They cannot shake our foundation or stop us from building the CJP in Telangana and AP.
Apart from Hyderabad, we have a protest planned in Warangal on Sunday,” said Sreeja.