Green flag atop a Sachendi house sparks tension, protest

  • | Tuesday | 19th February, 2019

Kanpur: A green colour flag atop a house led to tension in Kaindha village in Sachendi area of the district on Monday.The situation was, however, pacified after the police intervened into the matter. The police questioned the house owner Anees and his family members.“They, however, apprised us that the flag atop their house was an Islmaic flag which they had unfurled on the occasion of Barawafat recently. After a closer look at the green flag, which many villagers mistook as Pakistan’s, we found that it was a religious flag,” said station house officer Sachendi Raghvendra Singh.The police for time being removed the flag. “Aneessaid that they had purchased the flag from a local market area for installing on Barawafat,” the police said further.A police official further said, “National flag of Pakistan bears a white vertical bar at the left, the green portion bearing a white crescent in the centre and a five-pointed white star, wherein the flag hoisted at the house was green coloured with juts a crescent and star, which is mostly unfurled by Muslim community during any religious festival.”“Neither an FIR has been lodged nor anyone has been arrested or detained in this connection,” said the SHO. The police, after preliminary investigations, convinced the villagers that the flag was a religious flag associated with Islam and it’s followers.Earlier, the villagers had started creating ruckus mistaking the green flg as the national flag of Pakistan and demanded the police to book the house owner.According to the police, the incident took place after someone spread rumour that one Mohd Anees had hoisted the Pakistani flag atop his house in Kaindha village of Sachendi area on Monday.The mischief-mongers thereafter alerted the police control room about the same which in turn apprised the local police station.Sensing the gravity of the situation, the police rushed to the spot and launched an investigation in this regard.

Kanpur: A green colour flag atop a house led to tension in Kaindha village in Sachendi area of the district on Monday.The situation was, however, pacified after the police intervened into the matter. The police, after preliminary investigations, convinced the villagers that the flag was a religious flag associated with Islam and it’s followers.Earlier, the villagers had started creating ruckus mistaking the green flg as the national flag of Pakistan and demanded the police to book the house owner.According to the police, the incident took place after someone spread rumour that one Mohd Anees had hoisted the Pakistani flag atop his house in Kaindha village of Sachendi area on Monday.The mischief-mongers thereafter alerted the police control room about the same which in turn apprised the local police station.Sensing the gravity of the situation, the police rushed to the spot and launched an investigation in this regard. The police questioned the house owner Anees and his family members.“They, however, apprised us that the flag atop their house was an Islmaic flag which they had unfurled on the occasion of Barawafat recently. After a closer look at the green flag, which many villagers mistook as Pakistan’s, we found that it was a religious flag,” said station house officer Sachendi Raghvendra Singh.The police for time being removed the flag. “Aneessaid that they had purchased the flag from a local market area for installing on Barawafat,” the police said further.A police official further said, “National flag of Pakistan bears a white vertical bar at the left, the green portion bearing a white crescent in the centre and a five-pointed white star, wherein the flag hoisted at the house was green coloured with juts a crescent and star, which is mostly unfurled by Muslim community during any religious festival.”“Neither an FIR has been lodged nor anyone has been arrested or detained in this connection,” said the SHO.

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