The JJ Marg Police arrested two newspaper vendors for selling copies of the Urdu daily, Avadhnama, which printed a controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed from the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, a front page report in this paper stated.

Legal experts and even newspaper vendors have been alarmed and disappointed by this action. While the police may be going by the letter of the law, newspaper vendors are simply doing their job by selling newspapers and magazines. They are not privy to the content in newspapers. The complainant, though, has stated that the vendor knew and understood Urdu and therefore, should have known about the cartoon and should not have distributed the newspaper.