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The mother and brother of a farmer, who died in a road accident near the Ghazipur protest site, have been booked along with another person for allegedly insulting the national flag after a video of his last rites showed the body draped in the Tricolour.
According to the flag code of India, draping the Tricolour in a civilian funeral is an offence.
"Baljindra, a resident of Bari Bujhia village in Sehramau area had gone to participate in the farmers’ agitation on January 23 with his friends. He died in a mishap on January 25 and is body was kept in a mortuary as that of an unidentified person. His family members came to know about the incident on February 2 and they brought the body here," Superintendent of Police, Jai Prakash Yadav, said.
"The family members covered the body with the national flag like that of a martyr and took it for last rites on Thursday. The video of the last rites went viral on social media after which an FIR was registered against Baljindra’s mother Jasvir Kaur, brother Gurvinder and one unidentified," the SP said.
The farmer had died after a speeding tractor overturned near the ITO junction in central Delhi, amid clashes with farmers taking out a rally to protest the centre's new agriculture laws on 26 January.
Source: theprint.in, ndtv.com
Written by Siddhant Sharma
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