No arrest has been made yet, said a police official (representative)
Mumbai:
A case has been registered against a reporter and a video journalist of a news channel for allegedly entering a house to take footage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from a building near the airport, police said on Wednesday.
The complainant alleged that the duo forcibly entered his flat on the 11th floor of Paywadi SRA Cooperative Society, close to the domestic terminal of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in suburban Vile Parle (East), an official said.
Prime Minister Modi visited Mumbai on Monday morning.
According to complainant Mahesh Patel, a 61-year-old rickshaw driver, the duo told him that they had taken permission from the secretary and security guard of the housing society to take images of the Prime Minister and entered his flat without his permission, forcibly.
They captured footage of the Prime Minister’s special aircraft and Prime Minister Modi himself from the window of the flat for about 15 minutes, he said.
A case was registered at Vile Parle police station under sections 448 (house trespass), 188 (disobedience to orders of public servant), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Code criminal law, but no arrest has been made, the police official said.
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