Soon as raiding CBI sleuths arrived at Manish Sisodia’s residence on Mathura Road Friday morning, the Delhi police barricaded the adjoining service lane. The metal barricades served their purpose, enabling the police to restrict access to the Delhi deputy chief minister’s house and, crucially, preventing Aam Aadmi Party’s supporters, protesting a few blocks away, from reaching their leader’s house.
By the end of the day, however, closing off the service lane would land the police in a spot of bother.
