{"id":339438,"date":"2022-09-08T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339438"},"modified":"2022-09-08T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:25:39","slug":"delhi-man-held-for-using-national-flag-to-clean-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-man-held-for-using-national-flag-to-clean-scooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi : Man held for using national flag to clean scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 52-year-old man was apprehended for allegedly using national flag to clean his two-wheeler, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in northeast Delhi&#8217;s Bhajanpura area, they said, adding the man is a resident of North Ghonda area.\u00a0 The matter came to the fore after a purported video of the incident, shot by locals, was uploaded on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In the purported video, the person is seen cleaning and dusting his white scooter with the national flag that is folded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this matter, legal action has been initiated and a case has been registered under section 2 of Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act, 1971 at Bhajanpura police station,&#8221; said a senior police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The flag used by the person and his scooty have also been recovered, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The accused has been asked to join the investigation. He said it wasn&#8217;t deliberate and he did it by mistake. We are still asking him to join the probe and attend the court hearings when called, the officer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 52-year-old man was apprehended for allegedly using national flag to clean his two-wheeler, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in northeast Delhi&#8217;s Bhajanpura area, they said, adding the man is a resident of North Ghonda area.\u00a0 The matter came to the fore after a purported video of the incident, shot by locals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339440,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339438\/revisions\/339440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}