New Delhi: Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Manasvi Vashishta, who led a demonstration by Delhi Police personnel at the police headquarters in Delhi a day ago, has been suspended with immediate effect for “violation of discipline” on Tuesday (November 3), The Hindu reported. The suspension order, PTI reported, came from the Union ministry of home affairs, over his protest outside the police headquarters.Meanwhile, the Delhi high court has declined to take suo motu cognisance of allegedly threatening remarks made by Delhi Police ACP Manasvi Vashishta against lawyers, asking the advocates to file a formal petition.On Monday, nearly 100 police personnel, led by Vashishta, gathered outside Gate No. 1 of the Delhi Police headquarters in Connaught Place holding placards and banners over the transfer of ACP Vashishta and station house officer Arun Kumar, demanding a meeting with the police commissioner Anurag Kumar to raise their concerns.In videos on social media, ACP Vashishta was heard raising the slogan, “vardi ka apmaan nahi sahenge (we will not tolerate insult to the uniform)”.The two police officers were transferred in light of an indefinite strike called by city lawyers following a recent fiasco with lawyers at the Shahdara police station.The lawyers were protesting over the two police officers’ handling of an assault case involving advocate Lalit Bansal, LiveLaw reported. They also alleged that the two cops had threatened them. New Delhi Bar Association (NDBA) secretary Tarun Rana, while speaking to reporters, during the indefinite strike, had also demanded Vashishta’s immediate suspension.Vashishta, who was serving as sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Gandhi Nagar, was transferred to the Special Police Unit for Women and Children, before being suspended today, while Kumar was moved to the Security Branch. Meeting with police commissionerAfter nearly three hours of a protest by the police personnel, Anurag Kumar and other senior officers met a delegation of five protesting police personnel and heard their demands.According to The Hindu report, the personnel raised five demands. These included a standard operating procedure for handling confrontations involving lawyers, a restriction on the number of lawyers entering a police station up to five at a time, and registration of FIRs against lawyers allegedly involved in misconduct towards police personnel.“We have placed our demands before the Commissioner. He provided us with the meeting that we had requested. Not many people got the opportunity to speak openly. Nevertheless, we have conveyed our demands to him, and they are being discussed,” ACP Vashishta reportedly said during the protest.The Delhi Police also issued a statement after the meeting, in which it revealed that senior officers and the commissioner had heard the concerns and grievances raised by officers across ranks.“The CP appreciated the professionalism, commitment and discipline demonstrated by the force, particularly the exemplary discharge of law and order duties and successful conduct of the BRICS Summit,” the statement read, as per PTI. Lawyers seek Delhi HC interventionA group of advocates had mentioned the matter before a division bench of acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Sanjay Sharma, seeking the high court’s intervention over the alleged remarks.According to Bar and Bench, lawyers told the court that remarks like the ‘use of AK47’ and “kaale coat ke gunde (goons in black coats)” were used against them by the ACP.However, the bench said it would examine the issue once a “formal petition” was placed before it.“Please file a formal petition, we will look into it. We will order its listing,” said the bench, as reported by LiveLaw.It has also asked them to furnish a copy of the petition, once filed, to the Delhi Police Standing Counsel (Criminal) Sanjay Lao.Meanwhile, the suspension of ACP Vashishta has prompted the Rohini Court Bar Association to withdraw its previous call for a work boycott and ask lawyers to resume regular judicial work.