CJP Tiranga march aftermath in Delhi: 150 detained, Abhijeet Dipke arrested under BNSS, before SEM court today; AISA chief Neha Bora released at midnight.
Updated: October 17, 2026, 10:05 AM IST
Quick Read
- About 150 people were detained at the CJP’s ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ march in Delhi on Friday evening; Central Park was cordoned off and the RAF deployed.
- CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke was detained at Jhandewalan and later arrested under BNSS Sections 126 and 170 — he is to be produced before a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) today. The outcome is not known yet.
- AISA president Neha Bora, detained at Mandi House, was released around midnight after what she calls a five-hour ordeal.
About 150 people were detained in the CJP Tiranga march aftermath in Delhi on Friday evening. Delhi Police stopped the ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ march at Central Park, Connaught Place, sealed the area and put RAF personnel on the ground. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke — picked up earlier at Jhandewalan while heading to the march — was later arrested under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). He is to be produced before a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) court today, and at the time of writing no outcome had come in.
The march was scheduled for 5 PM on Friday. Police had prohibitory orders in force across the central Delhi stretch, and served notice at Dipke’s residence earlier in the day. Before his formal arrest, the CJP had alleged Dipke was taken to an undisclosed location — ABP Live reported the party accusing police of a “kidnapping”.
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CJP Tiranga march aftermath in Delhi: what the BNSS charges mean
Dipke was booked under two BNSS sections: Section 126 — security for keeping the peace, which lets a magistrate demand a bond from someone likely to disturb public order; and Section 170 — preventive arrest, which lets police detain a person to stop a possible offence. These are the 2023 law’s replacements for the old CrPC Sections 107 and 151 — same idea, new numbers. Both are preventive, not criminal: they are meant to stop trouble before it happens, and usually end in a bond, not a trial.
What the SEM court does today is exactly that call — whether to bind Dipke to keep the peace or let him go. That hearing was pending at the time of writing, so this story is still developing.
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Neha Bora out at midnight — after five hours
AISA president Neha Bora was detained at Mandi House while heading to the march. She was released around midnight on Saturday, after formalities under Section 65 of the Delhi Police Act, according to PTI reports carried by LiveMint and the Daily Pioneer.
Bora’s account of those hours is sharp. She alleged police shuttled her across Delhi for nearly five hours, denied her lawyers access until midnight, and withheld her medicines. Police, on their side, say the detentions — about 150 of them — were made to maintain law and order and keep traffic moving around Connaught Place. Zee News put the gathering at roughly 2,000 people at Central Park — that is Zee’s figure.
The ‘regime change’ fight
The march has turned into a political argument over one phrase. BJP chief Nitin Nabin hit out at the CJP’s talk of “regime change”, saying, “Power passes through mandate, not anarchy,” as reported by Zee News. The Congress pushed back, saying the opposition’s duty is to “oppose, expose, depose”, in TOI’s latest updates.
Rahul Gandhi also weighed in, calling the detention of young protesters “an act of cowardice”, per Zee’s trending coverage. The AAP, meanwhile, held its own Tiranga march near Rashtrapati Bhavan, as reported by OdishaBytes via TNIE.
What happens next
Two things will decide where this goes. First, Dipke’s production before the SEM court today — the order from that hearing was not out at the time of writing, so treat this story as developing and check back. Second, TOI reports Delhi Police have filed multiple FIRs over the violation of prohibitory orders, which could keep the matter alive in court beyond the march itself.
The CJP is also pushing a separate demand: a Supreme Court plea against the SIR, alongside its demand for a CBI probe naming Saurav Das and Ranka — the thread that links today’s detentions to a much longer fight over voter rolls.
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FAQs
Is Abhijeet Dipke in jail?
No — not as a criminal arrest. He was held under BNSS preventive sections and is to be produced before a Special Executive Magistrate today. The magistrate decides whether to take a peace bond from him or set him free. The outcome was not known at the time of writing.
What are BNSS Sections 126 and 170?
Section 126 lets a magistrate ask someone for a bond to keep the peace. Section 170 lets police arrest a person preventively to stop an expected offence. Both are meant to prevent trouble, and both replaced old CrPC sections — 107 and 151 — under the new 2023 law.
How many people were detained at the march?
Delhi Police say about 150 people were detained to maintain law and order and traffic. Zee News reported around 2,000 people had gathered at Central Park — that is Zee’s figure, not the police’s.
