The city police have registered an FIR against Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D. K. Shivakumar and over 20 other senior Congress leaders for pasting ‘PayCM’ posters in Bengaluru Friday.
Over 30 leaders and hundreds of party workers were taken into preventive custody from Racecourse Circle where they pasted the ‘PayCM’ poster on a wall. They were later released on station bail, police sources said. The leaders have been booked under the Karnataka Open Places Disfigurement Act, 1951, and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984.
