78 Bajrang Dal, VHP workers held for protest at newspaper office
A few hundred workers of VHP and Bajrang Dal gathered near Chandni Chowk Metro station and tried to protest in front of the newspaper office. They raised slogans and tried to gherao the office where heavy police force was already deployed.
Police picked up protester as Bajrangdal protester come for the protest , protesrers demand that Hindu sentiment hurt and humiliate due to Hindu goddess Ma Durga published on the cover page of Anandabazar Patrika puja special , in Kolkata on August 10, 2017. Express photo by Partha Paul.
Seventy-eight VHP and Bajrang Dal workers were arrested while they were demonstrating near the office of a vernacular newspaper in Kolkata on Thursday against the alleged derogatory depiction of a Hindu Goddess in one of its magazines.
A few hundred workers of VHP and Bajrang Dal gathered near Chandni Chowk Metro station and tried to protest in front of the newspaper office. They raised slogans and tried to gherao the office where heavy police force was already deployed. From the spot, 62 men and 16 women were arrested.
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Those arrested included VHP state vice-president Chandranath Das, Dharma Prachar Pramukh Dulal Chandra Das and VHP media in charge Sourish Mukherjee. They were taken to Lalbazar and later released on bail.
