Around 11 people have been arrested and booked for allegedly putting an objectionable poster resembling former Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in communally sensitive Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa town. The Moghat police in Khandwa district subsequently lodged an FIR in the matter. Among the 11 arrested, five are said to be teenagers who were arrested on December 3 and December 4. "We are consulting legal experts about dropping Section pertaining to sedition in the case," Tiwari said. On December 2, a poster bearing a portrait resembling late Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan along with objectionable content to endanger communal amity was put at Jalebi Chowk in the heart of Khandwa town during the Eid Milad Un Nabi procession.

Source: dna December 06, 2017 06:36 UTC