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Delhi Police has arrested Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib successful connection with the shirtless protestation staged by a radical of IYC members astatine the AI Impact Summit successful New Delhi past week, officials said connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026).
With this, the full fig of arrests made successful the lawsuit has risen to eight.
Police had earlier arrested 7 Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers, including 3 from Gwalior successful Madhya Pradesh, for the protestation staged astatine the Bharat Mandapam past Friday (February 20).
They person been identified arsenic Jitendra Yadav, Raj Gujjar and Ajay Kumar.
In addition, IYC's Uttar Pradesh wide caput Ritik alias Monty Shukla has been detained from Lalitpur successful the state.
According to police, further sections nether the BNS, including 196 (promoting enmity betwixt antithetic groups and acts prejudicial to attraction of harmony) and 197 (assertions prejudicial to nationalist integration), person been invoked successful the FIR, which transportation a jailhouse word of up to 3 years.
Charges of transgression conspiracy, obstruction of a nationalist servant successful discharge of duty, disobedience to an bid duly promulgated by a nationalist servant, unlawful assembly and communal volition had already been added to the FIR.
On Friday, a radical of IYC workers staged a protestation wrong Hall No. 5 of the acme venue by removing their shirts to uncover T-shirts printed with slogans against the authorities and the India-US interim commercialized deal, earlier being whisked distant by information personnel.
Police said the accused registered online to get QR codes to entree the venue.
Investigators are besides probing an alleged conspiracy space and the fiscal way down the protest, including backing for printing the slogans connected the T-shirts.
The incidental triggered a governmental slugfest with the BJP calling it a “shameful enactment to tarnish India’s representation connected the planetary stage”, and the IYC defending it arsenic a “peaceful” objection aimed astatine safeguarding nationalist interests.
