India: Youth Protest Movement Leaders Released from Custody

An Indian court has released Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party youth movement, alongside two other leaders of the group, The New York Times and Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported. The three had been detained a day earlier upon their arrival in the capital.

According to Dawn, the movement's legal counsel stated that an executive magistrate's court conditioned their release on a pledge to maintain public peace for one year. The release comes as authorities in New Delhi brace for continued demonstrations directed against the country's central election commission.