New Delhi: The Delhi Police has registered 25 FIRs and arrested as many people for allegedly pasting posters critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in reference to the vaccination drive towards COVID-19, officers stated on Saturday.
The posters studying “Modiji humare bachon ki vaccine videsh kyu bhej diya (PM Modi why did you send vaccines of our children to foreign countries?)” had been plastered in a number of components of the town, they stated.
On Thursday, police acquired details about the posters following which senior officers of the districts had been alerted.
Based on additional complaints, 25 FIRs had been registered beneath sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code and different related sections, together with part 3 of the Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, throughout varied districts of the Delhi Police, officers stated.
A senior police officer stated, “More FIRs are likely to be registered if further complaints are received in this regard. As of now, the investigation is underway to ascertain on whose behalf these posters were being put up at various places across the city and accordingly further action will be taken.”
Elaborating additional concerning the FIRs and arrests, the police stated three FIRs had been registered in northeast Delhi and two people had been arrested from there.
Three FIRs had been registered in the west and 5 people had been arrested whereas one other three FIRs had been registered in outer Delhi and three extra people had been nabbed from there. In the northwest half of the nationwide capital, 4 FIRs had been registered after which two had been arrested, police stated.
They stated two FIRs had been registered in the central half of the town and 4 people had been arrested whereas two FIRs had been registered in Rohini and one other two FIRs in the south had been additionally registered.
The police stated one FIR was registered in east Delhi’s Kalyanpuri and 4 people had been nabbed whereas one other FIR was registered in New Friends Colony police station of the southeast district, police stated.
Police officers stated one FIR was registered in Dwarka from the place two people had been arrested whereas one other FIR was registered in north Delhi and one individual was arrested from there. The individual claimed that he had been given Rs 500 to stick these posters, police stated.
Police stated another FIR was registered in southwest Delhi from two people had been held.
Another case was registered in Shahadra. The police have recovered the CCTV footage of the act and are attempting to nab the individual concerned in it, officers added.
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