India, Nov. 3 -- Delhi Police ACP Manasvi Vashishta, who led the protest outside Delhi Police headquarters on Monday, has been suspended.

The move comes after scores of Delhi Police officers, including recently transferred Gandhi Nagar assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Manasvi Vashishta, gathered outside the police headquarters on Jai Singh Road on Monday to seek a meeting with Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar over the recent face-off with lawyers in east Delhi's Shahdara.

ACP Vashishta and Arun Kumar, the station house officer of the Shahdara police station, were transferred out after city lawyers called for an indefinite strike over the handling of an assault case of a lawyer Lalit Bansal.

The lawyers, who had gone on strike las...