Assam headmistress arrested for disrespecting national flag at school
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The incident took place on Saturday morning as she alone was lowering the flag, a day after the flag lowering was scheduled to be done on Friday evening on Independence Day.
She was arrested under Section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. The Nagaon CJM court sent her to 14-day judicial custody on Saturday.
In a video, the accused teacher is seen placing the tricolour under her foot and attempting to fold it with the help of her knees after pulling out the flagpole from the courtyard of Gopinath Dev Goswami High School.
Khatowal police station OC, Sanjib Bora, said that the accused teacher came alone to the school on Saturday morning and lowered the flag in an objectionable manner. "Yesterday, she hoisted the flag in the presence of students, but today she came alone at around 7:30 am, opened the school gate, and lowered the flag," he said.
Police said that she arrived at the school early, before students, as the school authority forgot to lower the flag on Friday and was facing criticism from local villagers.
She was in an awkward position as the locals arrived near the school campus to condemn the insult to the national flag in the govt-run school.
Khatun told reporters that the school does not have any fourth-grade employee at present and had assigned the responsibility of lowering the flag to a clerk on Friday.
"The clerk did not come on time, and that's why this lapse happened," said Khatun. She added that the grade four employee, who usually lowers the flag on such occasions, was on medical leave.
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A senior citizen of the area said that the headmistress rushed to the school after locals criticised the school authority for dishonouring the national flag. As per the govt rules, the Nagaon inspector of schools has sent her a show cause notice for the lapse. Officials at the state education department said that Khatun may be suspended for negligence in duty and bringing dishonour to the tricolour.
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