Anti-Modi Posters Raised In Delhi

36 Cases registered, 6 Arrested…

Posters targeting PM Narendra Modi were put up in various parts of the National Capital, have triggered a police massive crackdown in which 36 cases have been filed and six people have been arrested.

Out of 6 arrested, two of them own a printing press.

On Tuesday, the police removed nearly 2,000 posters from different places. Most of these posters had the slogan "Modi hatao, desh bachao (Remove Modi, save the country)".

The posters were found in several parts of Delhi, said police.

Police said that the arrests were made for defacing public property and under the law that requires posters to have the name of the press.

On Tuesday, Delhi police said that they registered 138 FIRs, out of which 36 were against PM Modi.

Some 2,000 posters, which were allegedly being delivered to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s office, were seized by the Delhi police.

Police found the posters in the IP Estate area in Central Delhi.

The driver told police that he had been instructed to deliver the posters to the AAP headquarters.

He said that he had delivered a similar parcel on Monday as well.

The AAP said in a tweet, questioned the FIRs and asked what was objectionable in the posters. The party also said that this was the "Height of the Modi government's dictatorship".