Delhi Police Protest Against Transfer of Officers Under Pressure from Lawyers

Delhi Police Protest: Around 80 to 100 Delhi Police personnel, including women officers, gathered outside Gate No. 1 of Police Headquarters on the Man Singh Road on Monday, November 2, to protest against transfer of officers to appease lawyers. In a major embarrassment to the force, scores of police personnel joined the protest against the transfer of Assistant Commissioner of Police Manasvi Vashistha and Shahdara SHO Inspector Arun Kumar following a confrontation with lawyers. It is learnt through sources that a suspension order has been issued against Vashistha for leading the protest.

The officers were transferred to diffuse a stand-off between lawyers and policemen which followed an October 23 scuffle at Shahdara police station. An advocate alleged he suffered a serious head injury in the incident. Senior officers, including DCP (New Delhi) Sachin Sharma, tried to persuade the group to raise their concerns inside the headquarters rather than protest on the road.

The protesters, thereafter, submitted a written list of demands. They asked that the transfer orders be reversed and that cases registered against the lawyers involved in the confrontation not be withdrawn. Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar later gave a hearing to the protesting police personnel.

Delhi Police on Strike. The Delhi Police vs. Delhi Lawyers turf war just escalated. Delhi lawyers went on strike demanding the transfer of ACP Manasvi Vashisht, alleging that he failed to register an FIR after a lawyer(Lalit Bansal) was allegedly beaten inside a police station and conceived a head injury. The lawyer also accused the ACP of threats and corruption. Now, ACP Manasvi Vashisht and police personnel appear to be striking back, accusing lawyers of “gundagardi.” DCP Sachin Sharma is now left convincing his own furious officers to stand down.

— Rajat Jain (@RajatJain) November 2, 2026

Babu Lal Mitharwal, a Head Constable who has now taken VRS, said there is no doubt that Sahadara police failed to handle the issue properly. But police personnel joined the protest because of the simmering discontent among the lower ranks over service conditions. He pointed out that policemen in the capital face hardships and there has been no reform from the perspective of constables and lower rank personnel.

He said the police personnel were on the verge of revolt in 1966 and that forced intervention of the then home minister Gulzarilal Nanda. He announced in Parliament the decision of the government to constitute a Commission to look into the grievance of non-gazetted police personnel. Many recommendations of the Commission, under Justice G D Khosla are yet to be implemented

Mitharwal said the metropolitan allowance which was being given on the recommendation of the commission to Delhi Police personnel since 1967 for the hardships faced in the capital have now been withdrawn. A case against the withdrawal is pending in the Central Administrative Tribunal, he added