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Hazare, aids insulted national flag,
petitioner tells apex court
Thursday May 03, 2012 08:02:36 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court will Friday hear a petition seeking direction to
the central government to take action against Anna Hazare and his
aides Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal for showing disrespect to the
national flag during their Lokpal agitation in Delhi, Mumbai and
Chennai.
Chennai-based petitioner L.K. Venkat alleged that Hazare and his
associates had flown the flag at half mast in public, put it on
the ground and defaced it.
The petition said that his representation to the government to
initiate action against Hazare and his team members was ignored.
He said that acts of Hazare and his associates constituted an
offence that was punishable under the Prevention of Insults to
National Honour Act, 1971.
Hazare and his associates had shown disrespect to the national
flag "knowingly, intentionally and deliberately". Their actions
were punishable with imprisonment of three years, the petition
said.
Venkat said that he had sent to the government the video of
actions of Hazare and his aides along with his application seeking
action against them.
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