CJP alleges Rajasthan police detained Deepak Baliyan, drove him 100km before releasing him

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NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has accused Rajasthan Police of forcibly detaining its national organisational co-in-charge Deepak Baliyan from his residence in Alwar district and manhandling him despite his fractured leg, while police maintained that he had not been detained.The controversy comes ahead of the CJP's planned protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on October 10, where the party is demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged manipulation of electoral rolls and the deletion of lakhs of voters' names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.Baliyan, a resident of Mankheda village in Alwar district, had earlier accused local police of placing him under house arrest and threatening his family ahead of the protest. The party initially alleged that Rajasthan Police had forcibly picked him up from his residence in Kathumar on Thursday, October 8.According to Baliyan's family, police personnel first arrived at his residence and said the local station house officer had summoned him. Baliyan livestreamed the police action on social media, following which the personnel left, the family claimed. The police allegedly returned later and asked him to delete the video.

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