Acche din: Students and principal booked for comparing Modi with Hitler and Laden after BJP's protest

Four students of a government polytechnic at Kuzhoor and three others, including its principal, were on Tuesday booked by police for featuring in their college magazine a snap of Prime Minister Narendra Modi under a list of "controversial faces" along with Adolf Hitler,George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden and a few others.

The campus magazine for 2013-14 was released on June 4 and one of its pages titled 'negative faces' featured a photograph of Modi.

The FIR had been registered against four students, linked with the magazine, its Principal M N Krishnan Kutty, staff Editor Gopi and the owner of a printing press for offences under Indian Penal Code (IPC) including concealing blueprint to commend offence, provoking, punishment for slander and printing matter known to be defamatory.

The college magazine for 2013-14 was released on June 4 and one of its topics titled 'negative faces' included a picture of Modi.  Others figuring in the magazine include, sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran, Adolf Hitler, Al-Qaeda chief Laden and George W. Bush , police said.
They said the case was filed on a complaint by a social worker Subash.

The magazine was brought out by a team of college editors of the organization, whose student union is run by a pro-Left campus group.
The polytechnic authorities indicated that the magazine would be withdrawn because it has fueled a storm.
Local BJP workers organized a protest and burnt copies of the contentious magazine.