An Indian court has ordered the release of two leaders of India’s Cockroach movement who were jailed last week amid a mounting state crackdown on youth-led protests.

The two leaders of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, had spent a week in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi police last week.

On Wednesday, a special magistrate ordered that Das and Ranka be released, despite efforts by police to keep them in prison. They were made to sign a bond pledging no further breach of peace.

Their arrest came after a draconian police crackdown on a CJP march held in the capital two weeks ago to protest alleged manipulation of the country’s electoral roll, which led to the barricading of central Delhi and thousands of young people being detained.

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Das and Ranka were taken into custody for a second time days later after they jumped police barricades and held up an Indian flag at a site in central Delhi…