A seemingly routine operation to arrest political workers linked to a protest at India’s most high-profile technology summit turned into a near-24-hour standoff between the police forces of two states this week.
Police officers from Delhi travelled before dawn on Wednesday to Rohru, a small town near Shimla in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, to arrest three members of the Indian Youth Congress party for allegedly causing a disruption at the India AI Impact Summit held in the national capital from 16 to 20 February.