The mobilization was directed against the head of India’s electoral authorities and called for his resignation. The available information does not identify the official by name.
The number of detentions is unclear. France 24 reports that more than 2,000 protesters were detained, along with the movement’s founder.
EL PAÍS, by contrast, puts the number of people detained at around 1,000. The same outlet reports that 30,000 officers had been deployed and that two police officers had been injured; the available material provides no details about their condition.
According to Euronews, hundreds of protesters defied the security operation. The outlet also reports that police detained the movement’s leader, Abhijeet Dipke, and two other people.
The authorities’ blockade affected parts of the capital and was intended to prevent or neutralize the planned demonstration. The three sources agree that there was an intense security crackdown and that detentions were linked to the protest.
It remains unclear, however, whether the march took place in the form planned by the organizers. The different estimates of the number of detentions could reflect different times, areas or counting criteria, but the information provided does not make it possible to determine this.
The case therefore combines a protest making a political demand directed at India’s electoral leadership with a large-scale security operation in the capital, involving the detention of a number of people that the sources describe differently.