New Delhi: Delhi Police has detained several leaders of the Students’ Federation of India and the Democratic Youth Federation of India – among whom are two MPs – who were trying to reach Jantar Mantar, calling for the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, against the denotification of the site as one of protest and the quelling of democratic dissent today, October 14.Indian Youth Congress workers and members stormed “the Parliament Street Police Station over the brutal police crackdown on student protesters.”Indian Youth Congress workers led by IYC President @UdayBhanuIYC storm the Parliament Street Police Station over the brutal police crackdown on student protesters.Amit Shah, you cannot beat young people into submission and then shut down their space to protest. We, LoP @RahulGandhi ‘s Babbar Shers won’t let this happen 🫵Jantar Mantar belongs to the people, and we will reclaim it 🇮🇳— Indian Youth Congress (@IYC) October 14, 2026Some reports say that National Students’ Union of India and IYC protesters were also held.Left student bodies SFI and DYFI also attempted to march towards Jantar Mantar, from Ferozeshah Road, but were stopped at police barricades, and then detained.The student activists have posted on social media, saying that the Jantar Mantar “shall be reclaimed”, asserting that the protest was gaining strength as more people were joining it.Among those detained and taken to an unknown location are MPs V. Sivadasan and DYFI national president A.A. Rahim, SFI national president Adarsh M Saji, DYFI Central Secretariat member Jaick C Thomas, and SFI Central Executive Committee member Abhijith.“Along with them hundreds of students and youngsters were arrested and taken to unknown location,” the SFI noted in a post on X.On October 12, the Jantar Mantar was ‘denotified‘ as a designated protest site, at a time when the Delhi Police has been cracking down with extreme brutality on protesters who have been attempting to reach the site in outrage against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and his handling of the special intensive revision of rolls.An executive magistrate court today sent Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das to five-day judicial custody over charges of trespassing after they had managed to sneak into Jantar Mantar on Tuesday (October 13) morning and waved the national flag.Several thousands of people, including minors, journalists and lawyers, have been brutally beaten and detained on October 10 and 11 for protests across New Delhi.In the days leading up to the first of the planned protests on October 10, Delhi Police placed layers of barricade.A lot of the restrictions continue. The Hindu reports that commuters in Delhi are facing troubles thanks to the police’s diversions and also the reduced availability of buses, which the police is using to detain protesters and for police duty.In the absence of government data, the Delhi Transport Corporation Ekta Karamchari Union, which comprises contractual and outsourced employees of the public transporter, said at least 600 buses had been deployed to transport security personnel or detainees.Posts ‘deleted’Meanwhile, the news agency ANI reports that Delhi Police has taken down around 500 social media posts alleging that they have “spread rumours or attempted to create unrest among people.”The home ministry shut down internet in central Delhi on October 10. A later report found that there was no internet in makeshift “detention centres” where police took thousands of protesters and released them.Additional commissioner of police Sanjay Bhatia is quoted in the report as having said that the police were taking action against alleged “fake, misleading and synthetically generated social media posts in connection with recent protests in the national capital.”Various accounts of protesters have it that they were asked to remove videos and photos from their phones by police. In some cases, police took possession of their phones and removed the media themselves.