The Bareilly police, on Thursday, arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly sharing a Pakistani flag and posting a video with derogatory remarks about a particular community on his Facebook account. According to police, Bundan Ali was booked after a local social media user filed a complaint against him.
The complainant said, “Ali posted a Pakistani flag on his FB account’s status message along with a video mocking our culture and tradition. We objected and asked him to delete the post but he refused. With no option left, we filed a police complaint.”
During the investigation, police found Ali’s post “provocative” and registered an FIR against him under IPC sections 295-A (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of any class), 153-A (promoting enmity between two groups on grounds of religion) along with section 67 of the Information Technology Act.
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SHO of Izzatnagar Jaishankar Singh said, “Sharing the national flag of Pakistan and praising it can lead to a law and order situation. We found more objectionable posts on his social media profile. We arrested him as a preventive measure. He was produced before the remand magistrate who sent him to jail under judicial custody. Ali, a resident of Bareilly’s Izzatnagar, works as a part-time carpenter.
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