Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, reported being assaulted and detained by Delhi Police during a protest at Jantar Mantar and claimed that police launched lathi charge on students.
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Saturday claimed that he was assaulted and detained by the Delhi Police during the protest at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. Dipke further alleged that climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was sitting on an indefinite hunger strike, was also being taken into custody and students were subjected to a lathi-charge.
In addition to this, Dipke announced that he is starting an indefinite hunger strike. “I am starting an indefinite hunger strike beginning right now,” he wrote in a post on X.
I am starting an indefinite hunger strike beginning right now.
— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) July 18, 2026
In another post, Dipke wrote, “I have been beaten up and put under detention by Delhi Police.”
The CJP founder claimed that the Delhi Police stopped him at the place where he was staying and alleged that Sonam Wangchuk was forcefully removed from the protest site. “The Delhi Police has stopped me where I was staying. People are telling me that Sonam Wangchuk is being picked up from the protest site. Students are being lathicharged!” Dipke said in another post on X.
“At 7 AM, when I stepped out to freshen up, police goons arrived here. They dragged Sonam Sir away while hurling abuse at him. A 60-year-old man, who had been on a hunger strike for 20 days and hadn’t eaten a thing, was forcibly dragged away by the Delhi Police,” Dipke said.