New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Former senior bureaucrat Ashish Joshi has alleged that he was questioned by the Delhi Police Special Cell for nearly nine hours on Wednesday after being picked up while he was on a morning walk. The matter came to light on Wednesday evening with Joshi's post on X reading "Just got back home. Delhi Special Cell dropped me home. Details later."

In a subsequent post addressed to Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar, in the early hours of Thursday, Joshi reminded the top cop that it was a legal mandate to inform an individual's family during interrogation or detention.

"​Yesterday, I was taken for interrogation after my morning walk under the assurance that it would take very little time. However, as the hours ...