Farmers Movement Archive

Trichy city police book DMK, AIADMK men who put up flex banners

Trichy: Pursuant to a high court order to strictly adhere to rules on erecting digital banners and placards at public places, Trichy city police on Wednesday cracked down on those who put up flex banners in the city. Gandhi market police booked two cases while Government Hospital police, Thillai Nagar, Palakkarai and Woraiyur police registered one each. Police initiated the action irrespective of party affiliations. Gandhi market police booked DMK youth wing deputy organiser Prasanna for putting up a huge banner in front of Jupiter theatre on Madurai road in connection with their leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s birthday. An AIADMK functionary, Kannan, of the arts wing was also slapped with a case for erecting a banner in front of the theatre containing birthday wishes. An unidentified man who put up a flex banner at Kumaran Nagar junction thanking chief minister M K Stalin for ‘pressing’ the central government to withdraw the three farm laws was also booked by GH police. Palakkarai police booked an unnamed DMK functionary of Trichy south district for erecting a digital banner with birthday wishes near a peepal tree at Kajapettai. Thillai Nagar police booked an unknown person for erecting a flex banner near Uzhavar Santhai in Thennur with birthday wishes while another one was slapped with a case by Woraiyur police for putting up an advertisement banner for a restaurant at Salai Road. All of them were booked under sections of The Tamil Nadu Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1959, but were not arrested. Police said none of them had taken permission from their respective authorities to put up the banners. The crackdown came following the HC order to permit erection of digital banners and placards in adherence to Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies (Permission for Erection of Digital Banners and Placards) Rules, 2011. The court was hearing a case related to the death of a 13-year-old boy due to electrocution while erecting a banner in Villupuram.

The Times of India

2021-12-03

Trichy