At 4 a.m. on Tuesday, 18 August 2026, Delhi Police arrived at the home of AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar and took him away — smashing the CCTV cameras and seizing the DVR on the way out. By mid-morning, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal was publicly demanding answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with no official explanation forthcoming from the police.

Kejriwal's post, addressed directly to @narendramodi and @PMOIndia, asked a pointed question: 'प्रधानमंत्री मोदी जी, हमारे विधायक कुलदीप कुमार कहाँ हैं?' — 'Prime Minister Modi, where is our MLA Kuldeep Kumar?' He alleged that police provided no information to the legislator's family or party, and that surveillance equipment at the residence was deliberately destroyed during the pre-dawn operation.

A pre-dawn pickup, broken cameras, and silence from police

The sequence Kejriwal describes is stark: police arriving in the dead of night, removing a sitting elected representative without disclosing the grounds, and disabling the only independent record of what happened. The destruction of the CCTV unit and DVR is the detail that sharpens the allegation from 'unexplained detention' to something the party is calling deliberate evidence suppression.

Delhi Police functions under the jurisdiction of the Union Home Ministry, not the Delhi government — a long-standing constitutional arrangement that AAP has repeatedly contested as a tool of political pressure. That administrative reality sits at the heart of Kejriwal's framing: he is holding the Prime Minister directly accountable for the force's actions.

Kejriwal's warning: 'This country will not tolerate such hooliganism'

Kejriwal escalated the language sharply, warning: 'ये देश आपकी ऐसी गुंडागर्दी बर्दाश्त नहीं करेगा' — 'This country will not tolerate such hooliganism from you.' He broadened the charge beyond his own party, asking where an ordinary citizen would turn if a sitting MLA could be removed from his home without reason or notice: 'If police can pick up an MLA from his home without any information and without any reason, where does the common man of this country go?'

The post had not received any official response from Delhi Police, the PMO, or the BJP at the time of publication. The legal basis — if any — for Kuldeep Kumar's detention, his current location, and whether he has been formally arrested or is being questioned, remained publicly unconfirmed.

When an elected legislator disappears before dawn and the cameras go dark, the burden of explanation falls squarely on the state — and that explanation is still missing.