Mumbai, Sept. 30 -- Police have registered an FIR (first information report) against two MNS (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) workers for allegedly damaging a billboard in western suburb of Mumbai at Andheri Metro Station.

The MNS workers staged a protest at the station on Monday over the use of Hindi advertisements.

During the incident, the activists blackened station signs and vandalised some billboards.

They stated that advertisements in Marathi should be accepted at metro stations in Maharashtra and Mumbai, as Marathi is the state language.

The police registered the case against Ramesh Kharpe and Ravindra Indorkar under Sections 72 (defacing public notices, making it a punishable offence to wilfully damage, obliterate, or alter any publ...