The Cockroach Janta Party said on October 9 that at least 10,000 members of political, student, farmer and Dalit organisations had been detained across India before a planned October 10 protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The figure came from CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka and has not been independently verified. Reuters reported that police authorities did not immediately respond to its request for comment on the nationwide claim, so this article does not present 10,000 as an established count.
Separate reporting does confirm a smaller set of interventions. Indian Express reported that a senior Madhya Pradesh police officer said at least 30 people from Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra had been removed from trains and detained at Bhopal, Itarsi and Gwalior. The officer said they were being counselled and told to return to their home states. Those police-confirmed cases support that travellers were stopped, but they do not validate the CJP’s countrywide total.
Student organisations said about 22 women travelling from Pune were among people detained at Itarsi and taken to a hotel. Reuters and the Guardian also reported the CJP’s account that Pune students heading to Delhi had been taken away in a bus. The available reports document the group’s allegation and videos of activists being moved, but do not provide a full list of names, detention orders or the legal grounds applied to every traveller.
In Maharashtra, activists told Indian Express that police sought travel plans, issued notices and, in some cases, asked people to sign bonds saying they would not attend the Delhi protest. The newspaper reproduced details from at least one police notice. Allegations of intimidation or unlawful detention remain claims by activists unless established through official records or a court finding.
Delhi Police said the October 10 gathering had not been permitted and warned that participants could face legal action if they breached prohibitory orders. Senior officers separately told Indian Express that police were taking precautionary measures to prevent untoward incidents. Those statements explain the official security position, but they do not supply a nationwide accounting of detainees or answer the legality of each reported intervention in other states.
The protest seeks the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The opposition and protest groups allege wrongful deletions; the Election Commission and the government deny political bias and say the exercise targets duplicate or ineligible entries. This report is limited to documented pre-protest restrictions and attributed detention claims. It does not find that 10,000 people were detained, that every intervention was unlawful, or that disputed voter-roll allegations have been proved.