Fourteen individuals — among them activist Saurav Das of the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and Ashutosh Ranka — were taken into custody by Delhi Police at Jantar Mantar and subsequently transferred to Jaffarpur Kalan police station, according to their legal representative, Advocate Pushp Sharma.

Outside Jaffarpur Kalan police station, Advocate Sharma told a television news outlet that fourteen people in total were taken into custody at Jantar Mantar that morning — Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, and Ajinkya Shinde among them, alongside eleven others who had been present at the demonstrations there.

According to the advocate, those taken into custody remained inside the police station, with lawyers yet to be permitted any contact with them. Saurav, reached most recently, indicated that the group had not yet left. "The timeline for their release from that location remains unclear," he noted.

Advocate Sharma added that he had approached law enforcement personnel posted at the entrance to request access for a meeting, with those officers indicating that a further wait would be needed before anything could proceed. Access to the group had not yet been granted, leaving a visit with them still pending.

Reports from the scene indicated that the SHO had put a 15-to-20-minute window on any decision about granting permission. Once authorisation was granted, the advocate noted, a meeting with those inside would follow.

Saurav Das, affiliated with CJP, was among those taken into custody by Delhi Police upon arriving at Jantar Mantar to hold a protest, with participants maintaining that the location has long served as a recognised space for public demonstration. Footage recorded aboard a police vehicle as Das was transported away showed him addressing supporters directly, with the activist raising doubts about whether the Home Ministry held any legal standing to revoke the protest site's designated status.

Protesters moved through the barriers at Jantar Mantar. The individuals reported that they had been inside the area before personnel moved in to take them into custody. Questions were raised about the Home Ministry's authority to restrict public access to Jantar Mantar.

Das indicated that Jantar Mantar, being a site set aside for public demonstrations, would serve as the location where a push for Gyanesh Kumar's resignation would be mounted. Das contended that protest venues had been removed by the administration without any input from the public, pointing to the de-notification of Jantar Mantar as an example of a decision taken without community consultation, and that no avenue for stakeholder input was built into the process.

Das further contended that access to India Gate, Boat House, and Jantar Mantar had been progressively restricted, with each venue closed off in turn, and that no active protest encampments remain anywhere across the New Delhi district. He expressed the view that the current state of affairs was incompatible with how a functioning democracy ought to operate.