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Delhi Police has made the 5th apprehension successful transportation with the shirtless protestation by the Indian Youth Congress workers astatine the AI Impact Summit present past week, an authoritative said connected Monday (February 23, 2026).
The accused, identified arsenic Jitendra Yadav, was apprehended from Gwalior successful Madhya Pradesh, taking the full fig of arrests successful the lawsuit to five, constabulary said.
On Friday (February 20), a radical of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers staged a melodramatic shirtless protest astatine an accumulation hallway during the AI Impact Summit astatine the Bharat Mandapam, walking astir holding T-shirts with slogans against the authorities and the India-U.S. commercialized woody printed connected them, earlier being whisked distant by information unit contiguous astatine the venue.
Delhi Police arrested 4 IYC workers connected the time of the protest, with officials saying a wider conspiracy space successful the substance was nether investigation.
The contented 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.
According to police, the IYC workers connected Friday (February 20) entered the lobby country of Hall No. 5 and raised slogans aft removing the T-shirts worn nether their shirts.
According to constabulary sources, the protesters allegedly registered online to get QR codes to participate the venue. The accused had initially planned to paste printed stickers connected achromatic umbrellas and sneak them into the Bharat Mandapam.
However, they aboriginal felt that the achromatic umbrellas mightiness gully the attraction of the information unit manning the gates, truthful they changed their program and got the printed stickers placed connected T-shirts and wore them nether their shirts, a root said.
Once inside, they raised slogans aft removing the shirts worn implicit slogan-printed T-shirts, which work “PM is compromised”, “India-U.S. Trade Deal” and “Epstein Files”.
The sources claimed the protesters besides manhandled immoderate constabulary officers connected duty, and the full substance is nether investigation.
The investigators are besides probing the fiscal way down the protest, including who funded printing slogans connected the T-shirts.
IYC president Uday Bhanu Chib was earlier questioned successful transportation with the case, and much names person surfaced during interrogation of the accused, the sources said.
