A shootout maybe coming.

"In a span of six hours on Friday, BJP functionary Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga was arrested by Punjab Police from his Delhi home, intercepted by Haryana Police in Kurukshetra and handed over to Delhi Police in a flurry of developments that pitted state police forces against one another and triggered a political slugfest," TOI. The Duty Magistrate at Dwarka court in Delhi asked Delhi Police to provide Bagga with security, NDTV. Bagga has apparently criticised Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, both of whom are of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The AAP claimed that Delhi Police held their Punjab colleagues hostage till evening, HT. Why this farce wasting taxpayer money? Normally police are under control of state governments. AAP won elections to Delhi Assembly with overwhelming majorities in 2015 and 2020, ET, but the Delhi Police is under control of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the central government, wikipedia. Ever since his first victory in 2015, Kejriwal has wanted control of the police, TIE, but the BJP government at the center has been adamant in its refusal. In March 2022, the AAP won election to Punjab Assembly with 92 out of 117 seats, HT, giving it absolute majority and control of Punjab Police. It wants to give the BJP a taste of its own medicine. Problem was that Haryana is also in the hands of the BJP which formed a coalition government after failing to secure a majority in 2019 election, PRS, hence BJP controlled police in Delhi and Haryana ganged up to thwart AAP controlled Punjab Police. In February 2021, the Delhi Police arrested activist Disha Ravi from her home in Bengaluru "over a 'toolkit' tweeted by climate activist Greta Thunberg" and held her in custody on charges of links with Khalistani terrorists, NDTV. Bengaluru is in Karnataka where the BJP is in power with 105 out of 224 seats in the Assembly, India Today. Ravi, entirely innocent, was granted bail after 11 days in police custody, BBC, while Bagga, accused of rioting, has been freed by police forces of two states attacking that of a third. Then, there is Member of Gujarat Assembly (MLA) Jignesh Mevani who was arrested by BJP controlled Assam Police, with help from BJP controlled Gujarat Police, from his home in Gujarat and flown to Guwahati in Assam, TIE. " 'Converting our hard-earned democracy into a police state is simply unthinkable, and if Assam Police is thinking about the same, the same is perverse thinking,' Barpeta sessions court judge Aparesh Chakrabarty, said while granting bail to MLA Jignesh Mevani," wrote Rajdeep Sardesai. The problem is that "many courts, instead of acting with a sense of urgency and fair play, tend to procrastinate or take a politically expedient stand". A judge may have had guts in Assam but Mevani has been sentenced to 3 months in prison in Gujarat, TIE. With urgency. How long before we see a gunfight between officers of two police forces in India? That will be exciting.