From serving as the personal security officer (PSO) to former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar to being at the centre of a police protest over his transfer, suspended Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Manasvi Vashistha has had a varied career spanning central armed police forces and several assignments in the national capital.
A 2019-batch officer of the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Service (DANIPS), Vashistha was suspended by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on November 2, hours after more than 100 police personnel, including women officers, gathered outside the Police Headquarters to protest against his transfer and that of Shahdara station house officer (SHO) Inspector Arun Kumar. Vashistha had earlier served as the PSO to Dhankhar until the latter resigned as Vice-President in 2025. Following his initial training and posting in Delhi, he was transferred to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2022, where he served as Deputy Superintendent of Police in Diglipur and Havelock. He returned to Delhi in December 2024 and subsequently held various assignments in the Delhi Police. In December 2025, he was posted as ACP, Gandhi Nagar, where he served for around three months. He was later assigned to the Delhi Police Security Unit before being posted again as ACP, Gandhi Nagar, in March 2026. The sequence of events leading to Vashistha’s suspension started on October 23, when an advocate, Lalit Bansal, suffered a serious head injury during a confrontation between lawyers and police personnel at Shahdara police station over a parking issue. On October 30, the police commissioner held a meeting with representatives of the Bar Council of Delhi and district court bar associations, following which a joint coordination and grievance redressal mechanism was proposed.
He was also part of the Delhi Police Security Unit and was involved in security arrangements for the AI Summit and the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources.
Born and brought up in Jaipur, Vashistha comes from a family of doctors. He studied mechanical engineering at IIT Kharagpur between 2009 and 2013.
