India, Nov. 4 -- A day after Delhi Police assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Manasvi Vashishta led a protest outside police headquarters, the senior officer was suspended by the Union ministry of home affairs on Tuesday.

Vashishta has been at the centre of a controversy over a face-off between lawyers and police officers, in which one advocate was allegedly injured, in east Delhi last month.

The ACP was then transferred out of Gandhi Nagar after city lawyers called for an indefinite strike over the handling of the case.

The MHA order placed "Vashistha under suspension with immediate effect", but did not cite any reason for the suspension.

"It is further ordered that during the period for which this order shall remain in force, the...