Delhi Police have reportedly registered 20 FIRs and detained more than 7,000 people during a protest near Jantar Mantar, but key details in the supplied report require confirmation before the account can be treated as established fact.
The report, published by Live Hindustan – NCR, attributes the information to unnamed police officials and says the protest was linked to alleged irregularities in the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, or SIR. It states that demonstrators were demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
According to the report, the FIRs include allegations of attacks on police personnel, obstruction of government employees and other offences. One case registered at Kamla Market police station allegedly concerns four people who were arrested after claims that they assaulted students and misbehaved with women during the protest. The report says the four claimed links to the Hindu Raksha Dal.
The account describes a large security operation in central Delhi. More than 30,000 personnel were reportedly deployed to prevent protesters from reaching Jantar Mantar. Police and paramilitary units were said to have been positioned at several locations, including Akashvani Bhavan, Imtiaz Ali Marg, Hanuman Temple and Kerala House, while multilayer barricading and movement restrictions were imposed.
The report further states that more than 15 police personnel were injured in incidents of stone-pelting. Among those named is South Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police Anant Mittal, who was reportedly injured in the hand near Safdarjung Flyover while police were detaining All India Students’ Association president Neha Bora and her supporters.
Several opposition leaders, including four former chief ministers, were reportedly detained. The report names former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and says they were held at police stations in Jafrabad and Dwarka respectively. It also states that three individuals identified as the organising group’s coordinator, co-coordinator and another office-bearer were detained while travelling by air.
The report’s central claims have not been independently confirmed in the supplied material. The name of the organisation described as having called the protest appears inconsistent and may reflect a transcription or translation error. The report also contains unclear references to some individuals and affiliations. Delhi Police records, FIR copies, official detention figures, hospital or injury records and statements from the organisers would be needed to establish the exact scale and circumstances of the operation.
Until those records are reviewed, the reported number of FIRs, detentions, deployed personnel and injured police officers should be treated as claims attributed to the published report rather than independently verified facts. The immediate verification priority is to establish the identity of the organising group, the precise cause of the protest and the official case and detention figures.
