Delhi Police Stage Protest After Attacks On Their Colleagues

Call off11-hour agitation after assurance by senior officers to address grievances

- Hemani Bhandari And Vijaita Singh

Thousands of Delhi police personnel on Tuesday laid siege to the force’s headquarters for 11 hours and staged a virtual revolt, sparked by two attacks on colleagues. They called off the stir following multiple appeals, including from their chief.

The protests, in which families of the personnel also took to the streets, were withdrawn in the night after an assurance by senior officers that their grievances would be addressed.

There were two attacks on police personnel — one on Monday outside the Saket district court and the other on Saturday in the Tis Hazari Courts Complex after a parking dispute between an on-duty policeman and a lawyer, which led to at least 20 security personnel and several advocates being injured.

The protesters demanded that the suspension and transfer of police officers ordered by the High Court following the clash be revoked.