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Mumbai Police slams Shobhaa De for Twitter post on BMC polls

THE ASIAN AGE.
Published : Feb 22, 2017, 10:45 am IST
Updated : Feb 22, 2017, 10:45 am IST

De's 'funny' post indicating 'heavy bandobast' during BMC polls prompted a stern reply from Mumbai Police.

Shobhaa De has had run-ins with Bollywood stars like Sonam Kapoor before.
 Shobhaa De has had run-ins with Bollywood stars like Sonam Kapoor before.

Mumbai: Several comments of author columnist Shobhaa De have made headlines and created controversies, one of them being her comment slamming the Indian athletes participating in the Olympics last year.  

And De is again in the news for the wrong reasons.

The Municipal Corporation polls were held in several parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday, including Mumbai. As is the case with polls in India, police presence is at its peak on polling days and De shared a picture of an overweight policeman and captioned it ‘Heavy police bandobast in Mumbai today!.’

Shobhaa De shared 'funny' post on polls, gets a stern message from Mumbai Police

Shobhaa De shared 'funny' post on polls, gets a stern message from Mumbai Police

What was intended as a ‘funny’ post didn’t go down well with the Mumbai Police, who not only responded to the tweet but gave a stern message along with it.

The police force stressed that they love puns too but neither the uniform nor the official belongs to the Mumbai Police and that they expected better from ‘responsible citizens’ like her.

Shobhaa De shared 'funny' post on polls, gets a stern message from Mumbai Police

Several Bollywood celebrities like Pooja Bhatt, Anupam Kher also retweeted the post with the latter terming it ‘Jai Ho’.

Shobhaa De shared 'funny' post on polls, gets a stern message from Mumbai Police

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