Delhi police removed around 2000 Anti-Modi posters and arrested four
At least 2,000 posters were taken off, and 2,000 more were charged after a van was intercepted in Delhi.
The Delhi Police has written 44 FIRs and charged four persons, including two printing press heads, after posters, including some seeking the exile of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (‘Modi hatao, desh bachao’), were seen stuck on walls and poles in some areas of the Capital.
Anti-Modi posters all around Delhi:
Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order of Northern Zone) Dependra Pathak informed The Indian Express that cops intercepted a van in I P Estate when it arrived from the AAP office on DDU Marg and detained a man.
“The detained man revealed that his employer asked him to give the posters to AAP’s office and that he had done a delivery a day before as well. We have charged two other men, and further probes are on,” Pathak said.
There was no immediate reply from the AAP.
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According to cops, two printing press companies were given orders for 50,000 such posters per, and workers connected to the firms passed a few of them from late Sunday evening to Monday morning. The owners have been charged for not revealing the names of their printing press on the banners.
Two years after, Delhi Police detained 30 people and lodged 25 FIRs over the same incident of posters with comments critical of Modi during the Covid vaccination campaign.
According to cops, 20 FIRs in the latest incident were reported in the Northwest district, six in North and five in West, besides three in Shahdara and Dwarka, two in Central, Northeast and East, respectively and one in Southeast.
DCP (Northwest) Jitendra Meena approved the registration of 20 FIRs in the area and said they had not made any detentions so far. “Mainly, the FIRs were written under the Prevention of Defacement of Public Property Act and Press and Registration of Books Act,” an official said.
