UP Police charge imam for raising Islamic flag above the Tricolour

Kaushambi (UP): Police have registered a case against a 37-year-old imam of a mosque for allegedly hoisting an Islamic flag higher than the national flag, an officer said on Tuesday.

Chail Circle Officer Abhishek Singh stated that the incident was reported on August 31 in the Sandipan Ghat Police Station jurisdiction.

Sub-Inspector Ajit Singh, in charge of the Muratganj outpost, observed during a patrol that an Islamic flag had been raised higher than the national tricolour atop a minaret of a mosque in Muratganj town.

He remarked that the act "diminished the dignity and honour of the national flag."

The Islamic flag was promptly removed.

Following a written complaint from the outpost in-charge, police filed a case under Section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, against Imam Imtiaz Ahmed, a resident of Chikwan Ka Purwa, Kasia, in Kaushambi district.

PTI