Delhi Police arrests 6, registers 100 FIRs over ‘Modi hatao’ posters

After removing more than 2000 Modi Hatao Desh Bachao posters, Delhi Police arrested six persons and registered more than 100 FIRs over posters seeking ouster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Indian Express has reported that the number of FIRs are 44, that two of four arrested are owners of two printing presses.

The posters, around 2,000 of which had appeared in New Delhi, were removed. According to news portal The Wire a van carrying 2,000 more of them was intercepted. The two printing presses had been given orders for 50,000 posters saying, “Modi hatao, desh bachao,” – “remove Modi and save the country.”

Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order of Northern Zone) Dependra Pathak told The Indian Express that police intercepted a van in I P Estate when it was coming from the AAP headquarters on DDU Marg and arrested a man.

“The arrested man disclosed that he was asked by his employer to deliver the posters at AAP’s headquarters, and that he had made a delivery a day earlier as well. We have arrested two other men and further investigations are on,” Pathak said.

It is said police arrested some of the Aam Aadmi Party activists. The AAP, in a tweet, questioned the FIRs and asked what was objectionable in the posters. The party also said that this was the “peak of Modi government’s dictatorship”.

AAP tweeted images of larger posters and asked how many more FIRs the Modi government will file. It also used the same hashtag ‘Modi hatao, desh bachao’ and said that Modi was scared of the party.

Thousands of posters targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, put up in various parts of Delhi, have triggered a police crackdown in which 36 cases have been filed and six people have been arrested.

A couple of printers have also been arrested, said Delhi Police. “All posters should bear the name of the printer. Any violations will attract legal action. Such action is ongoing and will continue,” Delhi police said in a statement. According NDTV, the arrested printing press owners told the Delhi Police that they had received an order to print 50,000 “Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao” posters. The owners have been arrested as the posters did not have the name of the printing press.

“AAP doesn’t have the courage to say that they put up the protests. They broke the law while putting up the posters,” Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana said. The party has announced a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to demand the ouster of PM Modi.

-INDIA NEWS STREAM