A man was arrested on Sunday after a Pakistani flag was allegedly hoisted at his home Dewas district, 153 km southwest of Bhopal, police said.
Farukh Khan, a resident of Shipra village of Dewas district, was arrested under section 153A (promoting enmity between groups on ground of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), police said.
Khan, who is in his 40s, was arrested after a video clip went viral on social media in which Pakistan’s national flag was seen hoisted on the roof of his house.No one is seen in the video while the flag flutters in the wind.
HT cannot vouch for the veracity of the video clip.
The tehsildar concerned of the area sent a revenue inspector Lakhan Singh to visit the spot to check if there was actually a Pakistani flag.
