5 men with posters against CAA protesters arrested

Noida: Five workers of a Gurgaon-based printing press were arrested in Noida on Wednesday after they were found putting up provocative posters in the Film City area against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters.
Police said the arrested men claimed they were directed to put up the posters by Surjeet Yadav, who runs a right-wing outfit and is believed to be based in Gurgaon. A Bolero that the printing press workers were travelling in had 48 such posters. Police said all the posters and the van had been seized.
Around 2pm on Tuesday, police received information that some men had been carrying objectionable banners, which they were trying to put up in one of Noida’s most wellknown neighbourhoods where several leading media companies are based.
A police team eventually arrested the five near the NTPC cut. They told police they worked with Graphics Era at Sohna chowk in Gurgaon. One of them, Jaiveer Singh, is the owner of the printing press. The others were identified as Anil Kumar, Ravidutt Yadav, Vikas Kumar and Ramesh Kumar. The name of the press had not been put on the posters.
The posters contained references to a radio jockey who supported protests against the CAA and to students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, police said. An FIR was filed against the five under sections 3/12 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867.
Sector 20 SHO Rajvir Singh Chauhan said that the accused had claimed they were asked by Gurgaon-based Hindu Sena leader Yadav to paste the posters in Noida, and Yadav too would be made named in the FIR. “Action will follow against him too,” Chauhan said.