New Delhi, July 18 -- Delhi Police executed a meticulously planned early morning operation on Saturday to remove climate activist Sonam Wangchuk from the Jantar Mantar protest site after a strategy was finalised at a high-level meeting following the new Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar assuming charge, top police sources said.

According to sources, senior officers decided to carry out the operation at daybreak when the number of protesters was at its lowest. Police also identified a brief window when Wangchuk's close aide, Abhijit Dipke, had stepped away from the protest site, leaving the stage without its primary coordinator.

Around 30-35 personnel from the New Delhi district's Special Staff and local police, dressed in plain clothes, ...