Hindu Sena defaces India Islamic Cultural Centre signboard

Fringe right-wing group Hindu Sena defaced the signboard of the India Islamic Cultural Centre in Delhi, by plastering “Jihadi Terrorist Islamic Centre” posters on it.

Police said the posters, declaring "Jihadi Terrorist Islamic Centre", were removed immediately and an FIR registered against unknown persons at the Tughlak Road station after the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) reported the matter.

"We have registered a case under Section 3 of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act against unknown people. We are scanning CCTV cameras installed in and around the vicinity but have not found any relevant footage," a senior police officer said.

Hindu Sena representative Bam Bam Thakur told that some members of the group gathered outside the centre, located in Lodhi Colony of Central Delhi, at 9.30 am and vandalised the signboard. “We do not know who took it off, but we definitely went there and put it up today,” Thakur said. “The image has not been photoshopped or anything.”

Gupta claimed that the “Islamic Cultural Centre is not Indian culture”.

“Our Hindu Sena workers did this. They felt angry about how so many in India are openly supporting terror attacks. People here are coming out on the streets in thousands and defending those jihadis,” Vishnu Gupta, president of the Hindu Sena, told ThePrint.

Gupta added that he referred to the protests that took place in Bhopal and Mumbai, last week, against French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments defending the right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.