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Shobhaa De faces heavy police bandobast on Twitter

De tweeted a picture of an overweight cop and landed in another controversy

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A tweet brought author-columnist Shobhaa De face-to-face with some heavy social media bandobast from the Mumbai Police. De tweeted a picture of an overweight policeman with a caption that said: Heavy police bandobast in the city today!
Heavy police bandobast in Mumbai today! pic.twitter.com/sY0H3xzXl3
— Shobhaa De (@DeShobhaa) February 21, 2017
The tweet did not escape Mumbai Police's attention and they responded on Twitter by saying, “We love puns too Ms. De but this one is totally misplaced. Uniform/official not ours. We expect better from responsible citizens like you.”
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