Days after the Delhi Police registered a case over posters targeting the central government found pasted on a seat inside a train on the Airport Express Line, a second FIR has been lodged after graffiti and a poster were found on the walls of Shivaji Stadium Metro station in central Delhi.
The earlier incident
The complaint stated that Arya visited both locations with the housekeeping staff, photographed the defacement, and informed senior officials and the police. The first FIR was registered last Tuesday at the IGI Airport Metro police station on the complaint of Tarun Chaudhary, a train operator with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. During a train check, he spotted the two posters on a seat and informed his seniors.
The police said that the second case was registered against unidentified people on October 24 at the IGI Airport Metro police station under Section 3 of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 2007, and Section 62(2) of the Metro Railways (Operations and Maintenance) Act, 2002. A station controller at Shivaji Stadium, a CISF sub-inspector informed him around 11am on October 24 that black writing had been found on a shaft wall near Emergency Gate No, according to the complaint filed by Uday Shankar Arya. 7, while a poster had been pasted near Emergency Gate No. 5. The train departed from New Delhi station at 6.50pm and reached Yashobhoomi station at 7.15pm last Tuesday, according to his complaint. The posters were subsequently handed over to the Dwarka Sector 21 station controller, who informed the police.
Police said the second poster was also similar. In the earlier incident, the Delhi Police’s Metro unit had registered a case against unidentified people after two A4-sized black-and-white posters targeting the government over various issues were found pasted on a seat inside a train on the Airport Express Line on Tuesday evening.
