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During interrogation, Singh, a schoolhouse teacher successful Wazirabad, allegedly confessed to the act. (Photo: X/@ANI)
The Delhi Police arrested a 29-year-old teacher from Ghazipur successful Uttar Pradesh Saturday for defacing the Mandi House Metro Station with graffiti.
According to the police, CCTV camera footage captured a man defacing a metro presumption partition successful achromatic marker connected Thursday astatine astir 10 pm.
Following the incident, a First Information Report (FIR) nether Section 3 of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act (DPDP) and Section 72 of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Act was registered astatine the Supreme Court Metro Police Station.
The constabulary squad scoured done aggregate CCTV cameras successful the area, which led to identifying the fishy arsenic Rajiv Kumar Singh.
During interrogation, Singh, a schoolhouse teacher successful Wazirabad, allegedly confessed to the act. Singh said helium had attended a coating accumulation astatine Lalit Kala Academy adjacent Mandi House earlier that evening. After parting ways with his friends, helium arrived astatine the Mandi House autobus basal astatine astir 9.45 pm.
Inspired by a poem astir earthworms helium had work earlier, Singh allegedly admitted to penning the graffiti and revealed that helium often engaged successful akin acts connected nationalist structures, utilizing “POPA” arsenic his signature, said the police.
The constabulary aboriginal added Section 351 (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) to the FIR.
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