India: Cockroach party denied permission to protest in Delhi, founder Dipke pushes on

Here are our rolling updates from India on Friday, October 9: Tired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the "Star" or "Preferred" to keep DW News at the top of your feed. Police have not authorized the Cockroach Janta Party's planned demonstrations in New Delhi on Saturday. The Delhi Police said on Friday that they had received an application from the CJP on October 7 informing them of the protest but it was on "very short notice." "Our established guidelines require such requests to be submitted 10 days prior to the planned protest, which was not the case here," Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police Nupur Prasad told a press conference.