Inside Delhi’s makeshift detention centres: former Kerala CM, content creators, actor and journalists

Former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, actor Raj Zutshi, social media content creators and journalists were among hundreds of people detained by the Delhi Police ahead of a protest by the Cockroach Janta Party. The police set up makeshift detention centres in all 13 districts of Delhi, including Chhatrasal Stadium in north Delhi and Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana, roughly 13 and 38 kilometres away from the protest site at Jantar Mantar.

At Chhatrasal Stadium, athletes continued practising alongside the detention operation. A bus full of detainees arrived at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana, where 17 men had been taken by 11 a.m. One of them, a middle-aged man, claimed he had no affiliation with the protest and was picked up while taking a relative to the hospital. Fifteen journalists covering the protest were also detained and brought to the stadium.