Delhi Police called the 10 October CJP gathering illegal under Section 163, as 23,000 personnel and 331 CAPF companies moved into position

Delhi Police has warned against the Cockroach Janta Party's planned protest for 10 October, stating that Section 163 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is in force in the national capital and that any gathering would be considered illegal. Deputy Commissioner of Police Shrishti Pandey made the warning, according to a report published by The Economic Times on 9 October.

The security build-up

The scale of the deployment ahead of the protest has been reported in detail. NDTV reported on 8 October that 23,000 personnel were deployed and that barricades were being put in place across the city. The Union Home Ministry approved the deployment of 221 Central Armed Police Force companies between 8 and 12 October, in addition to 110 CAPF companies already provided to Delhi Police.

1. 1.221 CAPF companies approved for 8 to 12 October, in addition to 110 already with Delhi Police.
2. 2.85 Central Reserve Police Force companies, 10 Sashastra Seema Bal, seven Indo-Tibetan Border Police and seven Rapid Action Force companies, among the units listed.
3. 3.23,000 personnel reported deployed by NDTV, with barricading in place.
4. 4.500 people and 200 social media channels identified by Delhi Police in a 'perception' campaign reported by The Hindu.

A police 'perception' campaign

The Hindu reported on 8 October that Delhi Police had begun examining the performance of its own social media content, and why its account of events during the July protest did not gain comparable traction. One official was quoted as saying efforts were being made to draw engagement on social platforms during the July protest of the CJP. Another official said the force was working with Meta, X and other platforms to examine why its content was not being amplified by their algorithms.

Allegations of pre-protest detentions

On the same day, The Hindu reported that the CJP and Left organisations alleged that protesters were being picked up from across the country ahead of the 10 October march. The CJP stated that a group of students travelling from Pune to Delhi had been detained midway and taken to an unspecified location, and shared a video purportedly showing young people inside a moving bus in Madhya Pradesh.

These are allegations made by the organisers and their supporters. NOT SCRIPTED did not obtain detention records, and the accounts here are reproduced as reported. Whether any individual was detained, and on what authority, is not established by the reporting available at the time of writing.