The Delhi Police have registered 100 First Information Reports (FIRs) and have arrested six individuals in connection with objectionable posters against PM Narendra Modi that were put up across the city. According to the allegations, some areas of Delhi also had posters with the caption “Modi Hatao Desh Bachao”.
Special CP Deependra Pathak stated that the police filed the FIRs against the accused under sections of the Printing Press Act and Defacement of Property Act.
Pathak mentioned that the posters did not have any details of the printing press. The police intercepted a van as it left the AAP office. The police removed 2,000 posters and seized thousands more from a van that was leaving the AAP headquarters at IP Estate on DDU Marg.The police have registered FIRs in various districts of the city under the sections of the Printing Press Act and Defacement of Property Act. Police officials have arrested six people, including the owners of two printing presses, in connection with the incident.
Further investigation is underway in the case.
Minister Nityanand Rai’s Statement
On Tuesday, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai stated that the New Delhi district reported four cases of attacks on the residences of public representatives in the last two years.
While giving a written reply, he stated that the Delhi Police had reported four cases of attacks on the residences of public representatives in the New Delhi district in the last two years, and FIRs had been registered up to February 28, 2023.Rai said 16 people have been arrested in these four cases and a charge sheet has been filed in two cases. “All police officers have been directed to keep vigil in their respective area to avoid such incidents and to take legal action against the persons who are found indulging in such activities,” he said.
Rai informed this in Lok Sabha in response to a question by Hyderabad MP and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi.
