India, Feb. 17 -- Support poured in from different political and media circles for prominent Tamil magazine conglomerate, Vikatan, on Sunday, a day after the Centre allegedly blocked its website in response to a complaint filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president K Annamalai for carrying a cartoon showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with chained hands and legs sitting before US president Donald Trump.

The cartoon featured in Vikatan's digital magazine, Vikatan Plus, aimed to comment on Modi's silence concerning the handcuffing and deportation of Indian immigrants by US authorities during his just concluded meeting with Trump.

The magazine's editor, T Murugan, justified the cartoon as a valid criticism and symbol of democrat...