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They did not ask for an arrest or a verdict. They asked the government to wait. Before dawn on 15 October, Delhi Police detained Ankita Bhandari's parents at India Gate.
Speaking at the NHRC foundation day, the CJI said courts must step in when constitutional rights are violated. Minutes later, asked about the protests in Delhi, he called them a law and order matter and not his domain.
Videos and posts from the protest sites have flooded social media. Delhi Police say they are enforcing prohibitory orders, while protesters, journalists and opposition leaders allege detentions without cause and an uneven approach to who is stopped.
For over 30 years, Jantar Mantar was where Delhi's farmers, students, unions and parties took their grievances. A new police order has ended that status and moved protests to three grounds farther from Parliament.
Delhi became a fortress on October 10 as police detained hundreds, cancelled trains and shut metro stations ahead of the CJP protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
The Kerala government has received legal counsel from the Director General of Prosecution regarding the potential reopening of a 2006 case involving Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, connected to the suicide of Malaysian project officer Lee See Been.
A teenage girl was found brutally murdered in north Delhi, prompting a swift police raid that arrested four suspects linked to her neighbourhood.