Delhi Police protest: Suspended ACP barred from leaving city without approval

Hours after he joined over 100 police officers in a protest outside the Delhi Police Headquarters, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Manasvi Vashishtha was suspended by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The MHA said departmental proceedings against him are contemplated; it did not specify the grounds for the proposed proceedings.

The development came after Vashistha protested transfer orders issued after a scuffle between lawyers and police officials at Delhi’s Shahdara police station on October 23. He was one of the two transferred. A 2019-batch DANIPS (Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Police Service) officer, Vashishtha had earlier served as then Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s Personal Security Officer from April 2025 until the latter resigned in July 2025.

How a bike outside salon led to Delhi Police-lawyers face-off, ACP’s suspension Born and brought up in Jaipur, he comes from a family of doctors.

He pursued a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, between 2009 and 2013. He joined the SSB in 2016. During his four-year tenure with the force, from 2016 to 2020, he was posted in Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar.