Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday used the high-profile firing incident involving Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff as a platform to attack Delhi Police, alleging that the force was devoting disproportionate attention to detaining students and activists at Jantar Mantar while serious crime went unchecked. The remarks, posted on social media platform X, reignited the debate over law enforcement priorities in the capital.

What Dipke Said

In his post on X, Dipke wrote: “Instead of cracking down on students and activists, the police should focus on actual criminals. This is what happens when the Govt and police have their priorities completely misplaced.” The statement came within hours of a shooting incident linked to Tiger Shroff drawing widespread public attention and raising questions about security preparedness and the law enforcement response to high-profile crime.

The Backdrop: Jantar Mantar Detentions

According to reports, Delhi Police detained several students and activists during recent demonstrations at Jantar Mantar, the capital’s designated protest site. Dipke’s remarks appear to draw a direct contrast between those detentions and what he described as inadequate action against more serious criminal threats. The timing — capitalising on a nationally trending case — was deliberate, his critics acknowledge, even as his supporters argue the underlying concern is legitimate.

Critics Push Back

Critics of Dipke’s intervention argue that he is leveraging an unrelated celebrity incident for political visibility. They maintain that maintaining order at public protest sites such as Jantar Mantar is a lawful and standard police responsibility, and that conflating it with a failure to tackle violent crime is a false equivalence. No official response from Delhi Police to Dipke’s specific allegations had been issued at the time of reporting.

Supporters’ View

Dipke’s supporters, however, contend that the optics of detaining young protesters while high-profile criminal incidents attract national headlines point to a structural problem in how law enforcement agencies allocate resources. The Tiger Shroff firing case, still developing at the time of his post, amplified the resonance of that argument among those already critical of the police’s handling of civil protests.

Broader Debate

The episode has triggered renewed discussion on social media about the dual mandate of urban policing — managing public dissent on one hand and countering violent crime on the other. This is not the first time a high-profile crime incident has been used by political voices to spotlight policing gaps; similar flashpoints have periodically surfaced around protest crackdowns in New Delhi. As the Tiger Shroff case continues to unfold, the controversy around Dipke’s remarks is unlikely to dissipate quickly.