‘Mere lapse in not lowering National Flag after sunset not gross affront or insult’; Kerala HC quashes criminal case dating back to 2015
“To attract the offence under Section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, a person should burn, mutilate, deface, defile, disfigure, destroy, trample upon or otherwise show disrespect to or bring into contempt, the Indian National Flag or the Constitution of India or any part thereof, in any public place or in any other place within public view.”