India news: CJP leaders Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka released from Tihar Jail

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were released from Tihar Jail on Wednesday night.

The two, calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, were booked for 'trespassing' at Jantar Mantar after it was denotified as a protest site.

Bengaluru-based digital identity and cybersecurity company eMudhra has revoked eight intermediate certificates after their private keys were found to be weak, prompting Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft to block the affected certificates.

"Eight intermediate (issuing) CAs in our Global TLS business were revoked because their published keys were weak," the company said, adding that it was investigating the issue.

A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari rely on to verify website identities and establish secure connections.

The flaw could have allowed attackers to impersonate legitimate websites using fraudulent certificates and potentially intercept or manipulate supposedly secure online communications. However, no evidence of such misuse has been publicly confirmed.

The flaw originated in a key-generation process in April 2025 that produced weak private keys, the company said.

Media reports citing security researcher Scott Helme said one of the keys was the number four, rather than a cryptographically secure, randomly generated number, while others were also easily guessable.

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said it had taken serious note of the incident.

"A special team has been constituted to investigate the matter," the ministry said in a statement on X.

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were released from Tihar Jail on Wednesday after a Special Executive Magistrate declined a police request to extend their judicial custody by three more days, reports said.

The two leaders at the forefront of the protests calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar following voter-list irregularities, furnished personal bonds and sureties of Rs 50,000 (€470; $530) each.

Their written undertakings promised to maintain peace and not call for protests at Jantar Mantar "till such a time that it is denotified in accordance with law."

The iconic protest site was denotified by Delhi Police earlier in October, months after CJP-led protests culminated in the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Das and Ranka were booked for "trespassing" after entering the Jantar Mantar protest site and raising the Indian flag.

The latest CJP protests have called for Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the deletion of voters' names.