India's 'cockroach' protesters set to return despite police crackdown

Share Save Add as preferred on Google Zoya Mateen and Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi Getty Images Several protesters were detained during last week's protests India's "cockroach" protesters are set to return to the streets of capital Delhi on Friday, days after police prevented their last mass demonstration and two of their leaders were jailed.

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth-led movement seeking electoral reforms, has called on supporters to gather at Central Park in Connaught Place, a busy commercial district.

The call follows the jailing of two CJP leaders for five days after they entered Jantar Mantar, a protest site recently declared off-limits by police.

What began as a campaign against alleged electoral fraud has since become a wider fight over the right to protest. Central Park is not an approved protest venue either.