Bringing to an end the seven-day judicial custody of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) in New Delhi ordered their release Wednesday after they gave an undertaking that they would not call for any further protest at Jantar Mantar until it remained a denotified site.

Sent to judicial custody on October 14, a day after the ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, Das and Ranka were produced before the SEM at Mandir Marg police station.

The SEM’s order stated that both Das and Ranka gave a written undertaking promising to maintain “peace and tranquillity”.

“We will not make any calls for protest at Jantar Mantar till such a time that it is denotified in accordance with law. That we further reiterate that any protest undertaken would be done within the four corners of the Constitution,” the undertaking stated.…