Three Muslim men were arrested in Nawada district of Bihar on Monday for waving a Palestinian flag during a procession held ahead of Muharram. This comes two days after two Muslim youth were booked on the same charge in Darbhanga district on 13 July.
“On the basis of an investigation into a video that went viral on social media, three persons were arrested. The Palestinian flag was seized,” said a senior district police officer in Nawada, Mahesh Choudhary.
In Darbanga, the police began the investigation after a video showed a Muslim youth waving a Palestinian flag at a Muharram procession in Kilaghat locality on 12 July. Two Muslim men were booked in the case.
In a similar incident, on 9 July, a 20-year-old shopkeeper was arrested for waving the Palestinian flag at a Muharram procession in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi on Tuesday.
This story was originally published in maktoobmedia.com.