A court in New Delhi sent two leaders of India's youth-led "Cockroach" movement to jail for five days on Wednesday, the BBC reported. They had climbed into a protest site that police recently closed.

Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were among about a dozen people who jumped police barricades on Tuesday to enter Jantar Mantar, The Guardian reported. They waved Indian flags and chanted slogans.

Jantar Mantar has been Delhi's main protest site for more than 30 years, the Guardian said. Police removed it from the list of approved sites after protests last weekend and named three other places farther from Parliament.

Police accuse the activists of trespassing, breaking a promise to keep the peace, ignoring a ban and blocking officials, the BBC reported. They deny the charges. A third activist, Ajinkya Shinde, was released.

The two leaders will be held in Delhi's Tihar prison, the Guardian said. They can ask a higher court for bail, the BBC reported.

The group, called the Cockroach Janta Party, is a pressure group, not an official party, the BBC said. It wants India's top election official, Gyanesh Kumar, to quit over claims of fraud in voter lists. Kumar and the Election Commission deny wrongdoing.

"Waving the tricolour at Jantar Mantar in a peaceful protest is not a crime. Jailing youth for it is an act of cowardice," opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said, according to the Guardian.

Group founder Abhijeet Dipke dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "officially declare an Emergency," India Today reported. That refers to a period in the 1970s when civil rights were suspended.

Over the weekend, about 30,000 police and paramilitary forces were deployed, and more than 7,000 people were detained, the Guardian said.

What we know: Two Cockroach movement leaders were jailed for five days for entering Jantar Mantar.
What we don't: Whether a higher court will grant them bail.