Cleric in UP booked for hoisting religious flag over tricolour

A cleric in a two-storey mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district was charged under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act for allegedly hoisting a religious flag above the Indian tricolour. This act invites a maximum three-year jail term. Another incident in Bareilly involved a doctor being booked for making derogatory remarks against a minority community on a social media group, with charges under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the IT Act.