Thousands of posters focused on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, positioned up in diverse components of Delhi, have brought about a police crackdown wherein forty four instances had been filed and 4 humans had been arrested. Two of the arrested guys very own a printing press.
In a huge operation on Tuesday, the police took down almost 2,000 posters from numerous locations in Delhi. Most of those posters had the slogan “Modi hatao, desh bachao (Remove Modi, shop the country)”.
Police stated that the arrests have been made for defacing public belongings and below the regulation that calls for posters to have the call of the printing press.
Some 2,000 posters, which have been allegedly being brought to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)`s office, have been seized via way of means of the police. Cops located the posters once they intercepted a van withinside the IP Estate place in Central Delhi. The motive force informed police that he have been told to supply the posters to the AAP headquarters. He stated that he had brought a comparable consignment on Monday too.
The Aam Aadmi Party, in a tweet, puzzled the FIRs and requested what become objectionable withinside the posters. The birthday birthday celebration additionally stated that this become the “height of Modi government’s dictatorship”.
The arrested printing press proprietors informed the Delhi Police that that they’d acquired an order to print 50,000 “Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao” posters. The proprietors had been arrested because the posters did now no longer have the call of the printing press.