A man had put up 300 banners and hoardings in a locality in Mumbai, Pimpri Chinchwad area to apologise to his girlfriend after a quarrel between them. The residents of the society woke up on Friday morning to see the posters written “(name of the girl), I am sorry”.
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Nilesh Khedekar, a 25-year-old local businessman, in trouble with Wakad police approaching the Pimpri Chinchwad civic body to initiate action as per rules dealing with illegal hoardings and defacement of public property.
“We managed to zero in on his friend Vilas Shinde who had helped Khedekar get the flex hoardings printed. Through him, we traced Khedekar who is the brain behind this act,” a Wakad police official said.
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“The girl was coming on Friday to the area from Mumbai. Under the cover of darkness in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, over 300 hoardings were put up on the route which the girl was likely to take,” the official said.
The investigation in the matter is still on.