Archive · 11 Oct 2026
Villagers Hold Police Team During Attempt to Detain Protester
Police officers went to Jai Dev Dagar’s home in Kabulpur early on Saturday.
Dagar said they wanted to stop him from going to a protest in Delhi.
He called people, and hundreds of villagers came to the house.
They asked for a senior officer to explain why the police had come.
The villagers did not let the police team leave for several hours.
The officers eventually gave them a handwritten note explaining their visit.
Dagar said going to the protest was his democratic right.
The police said the protest did not have the needed permission and they were responsible for preventing people from gathering there.
Police visited Zila Parishad member Jai Dev Dagar’s home in Kabulpur around 6 a.m. Saturday.
Dagar said officers planned to stop him travelling to a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
Hundreds of villagers gathered and prevented the police team from leaving until about 1 p.m.
The stand-off ended after officers gave villagers a handwritten note citing prohibitory orders and the planned protest.
Dagar said attending was his democratic right; SHO Rakesh Kumar said police were acting because the protest lacked necessary permission.
- Who
- Police officers from Shivaji Colony police station, Zila Parishad member Jai Dev Dagar, and Kabulpur villagers.
- What
- An attempted police detention led villagers to keep the police team from leaving until it explained its visit in writing.
- When
- Saturday, from around 6 a.m. until about 1 p.m.
- Where
- Kabulpur, in Haryana’s Rohtak district.
- Why
- Police said Dagar had announced plans to attend a Delhi protest that lacked necessary permission; Dagar said attending was his democratic right.
Dagar and Villagers
Police
Preventing Dagar from attending the protest
Dagar and Villagers
Dagar maintained that attending the demonstration was an exercise of his democratic rights.
Police
SHO Rakesh Kumar said police visited because Dagar had announced plans to attend a demonstration that lacked necessary permission.
Villagers’ response to the police visit
Dagar and Villagers
Villagers demanded that a senior officer explain the proposed detention and kept the team from leaving until they received a written explanation.
Police
Kumar described Dagar as law-abiding and cooperative, and said preventing people from gathering at the venue was the police’s responsibility.
- Police station
- Shivaji Colony police station
- Police team leader
- Station House Officer Rakesh Kumar
- Person police sought to detain
- Jai Dev Dagar, a Zila Parishad member
- Planned protest venue
- Jantar Mantar, Delhi
- Confrontation duration
- Around 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday
- How the stand-off ended
- Police gave villagers a handwritten note explaining their visit
- Police explanation
- The note referred to prohibitory orders imposed by the Rohtak district administration