The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking action against Mr Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly showing disrespect to the national flag during his agitation for the Lokpal Bill last year.
A Bench of Mr Justices B.S. Chauhan and J.S. Khehar rapped the petitioner Mr L.K. Venkat for filing the PIL.
The petitioner had alleged that during the agitation in December last year, the associates of Mr Harare had shown disrespect to the national flag and the Government had failed to take any action despite a complaint filed against them.
“During the course of the agitation, Mr Hazare and his associates had flown the national flag at half mast in public and also mutilated and defaced the flag,” the petitioner alleged.
The Bench, however, was not satisfied with his contention, and during the hearing threatened to impose cost on the petitioner for misusing the process of PIL but it refrained from doing so and dismissed the petition.
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