‘No promise to spare violent protesters’: Government sources counter CJP

The Centre has said it will withdraw cases against peaceful protesters. File Written by: Deeptimaan Tiwary 5 min readNew DelhiJul 28, 2026 04:45 PM IST First published on: Jul 28, 2026 at 04:36 PM IST As the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) threatens to resume its agitation, accusing the Centre of backtracking on its promise not to take legal action against protesters, government sources have said its assurance never extended to those accused of violence or those with a criminal background. One of the key demands of the CJP before it reached an agreement with the Centre on calling off the protests against paper leaks in Delhi and elsewhere was that cases registered against protesters be withdrawn. The CJP has now accused the government of going back on its commitment by allowing the police to r