Archive · 11 Oct 2026
Jharkhand CJP Members Allege Surveillance on Journey to Delhi Protest
Members of a group called the Cockroach Janta Party were travelling from Jharkhand to Delhi for a protest.
They said men in plain clothes watched and filmed them.
Khushboo Chaudhary said a train ticket examiner warned that she might be detained if she continued.
She got off at Bokaro during the night and returned to Ranchi.
Moin Khan said other members also received warnings and some stopped their trips.
Other members did reach Delhi and joined the protests.
The accounts differ about how many continued their journeys and where the alleged detention might happen.
Railway security officials said they had not been told about such an incident.
Cockroach Janta Party members from Jharkhand said men in plain clothes followed and filmed them as they travelled toward Delhi for protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Khushboo Chaudhary alleged a travelling ticket examiner warned her she could be detained during the journey; accounts differ on whether the warning referred generally to the route or specifically to Uttar Pradesh.
Chaudhary said she left the train at Bokaro around 3:30 a.m. and returned to Ranchi.
Moin Khan said some members also abandoned their journeys, while others continued to Delhi and joined the protests; reported numbers of those who travelled differ between accounts.
Ranchi railway security officials said they had no information about any such incident.
- Who
- Cockroach Janta Party members Khushboo Chaudhary and Moin Khan made the allegations; railway security official Ashish Kumar Pandey said authorities had no information about an incident.
- What
- Members alleged that plainclothes men followed and filmed them and that a travelling ticket examiner warned of possible detention while they travelled to a Delhi protest.
- When
- Chaudhary said she travelled on the night of October 8 and got off at about 3:30 a.m.; the reports describe the protest as occurring two days later.
- Where
- The reported journey began at Ranchi railway station and was headed to Delhi; Chaudhary said she got off at Bokaro.
- Why
- The members said they were travelling to join protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar; some said they stopped because they feared detention.
CJP members' allegations
Railway authorities' response
Alleged surveillance and warnings
CJP members' allegations
Chaudhary and Khan said plainclothes men watched or filmed CJP members and that a travelling ticket examiner warned them they could be detained if they continued toward Delhi.
Railway authorities' response
Ranchi railway security officials, including Ashish Kumar Pandey, said they had no information about such an incident and that no such matter had come to their notice.
- Group
- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)
- Planned destination
- Delhi
- Protest focus
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
- Reported travel date
- October 8, according to Chaudhary
- Chaudhary's account
- She said she got off at Bokaro around 3:30 a.m. and returned to Ranchi.
- Other members
- Khan said some members stopped travelling while others reached Delhi and joined protests; accounts give differing figures for those who continued.
- Railway response
- Ranchi railway security officials said they had no information about such an incident.
