Delhi Police protest: SOP, courtroom security among 5 demands raised by protesting cops
Delhi Police cops, including suspended ACP Manasvi Vashishta, protested outside police headquarters on Monday, seeking clarity on handling confrontations.
The Delhi Police force faced a protest on Monday, with around 500 police personnel gathering outside headquarters to raise five demands. ACP Manasvi Vashishta, who led the demonstration, has since been suspended. The protest followed the transfer of Vashishta and Arun Kumar, the Shahdara police station's station house officer, after lawyers called for an indefinite strike over the handling of an assault case involving advocate Lalit Bansal.
The clash occurred on October 23 in east Delhi's Shahdara, where Bansal sustained a head injury. Following the transfers, police personnel gathered outside headquarters on Monday, demanding a grievance redressal committee, standard operating procedures to deal with confrontations involving lawyers, restrictions on the number of lawyers entering police officers' offices at once, and security for police personnel inside courtrooms.
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