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Aditya Dube, a sub-editor-cum-reporter with the Shiv Sena's afternoon newspaper, Dopahar Ka Saamna, has been arrested by the Pydhonie police on a charge of trying to create enmity between two communities.
Dube had filed a report accusing a restaurant in Bhendi Bazaar, central Mumbai, of selling tandoori chicken cut to look like idols of Lord Ganesh. The report appeared in the March 22 edition of the newspaper with photographs by Dube.
Following this, the Pydhonie police registered a complaint against him under section 153(A) of the Indian Penal Code, and arrested him.
Dube told rediff.com that he had received telephone calls from people complaining about the restaurant. "That's why we went there and took pictures," he said.
Police said no action had been taken against the editor and the publisher of the newspaper, as is usually done in a case under section 153(A), because no complaint had been filed against them.
The newspaper is edited by Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray and its executive editor is Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Nirupam.
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