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[poondu]

A lawyer in Madhya Pradesh has filed a case in Bhopal against tennis star Sania Mirza for allegedly dishonouring the national flag during her visit to Australia.

Sania, representing India at the Hopman Cup in Australia, has been caught on camera watching a match putting her feet right in front of the national flag of India.

Union Sports Minister Mani Shankar Iyer has also been made a party in the case. "Sania got so much involved in watching the match that she forgot where her feet were, and what is the value of the tricolour in the heart of Indians. She should, therefore, be penalized," Raj Kumar Dubey, the petitioner, contended before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Ajay Shrivastava here.

Dubey urged the court that the sports minister should also be asked to enact a law to deal with rising number of incidents of insult to the national flag.

"Either the union minister should act to prevent recurrence of such incidents and inform the court accordingly, or we will act against the minister," Dubey told IANS.

The next date of hearing has been fixed on January 7.

[keep-it-cool]

What does putting her feet in front of the national flag mean?? What do you do if there is a flag somewhere?? Hide your feet?

[broadbat]

It gets from the ridiculous to the bizarre now. I think they should consider it to be a national flag only if it is up on a flag pole. All the rest will be treated as copies and what you do with it is your business. After all tearing a xerox of your flag will not get you in jail will it?

[dextrous]

It gets from the ridiculous to the bizarre now. I think they should consider it to be a national flag only if it is up on a flag pole. All the rest will be treated as copies and what you do with it is your business. After all tearing a xerox of your flag will not get you in jail will it?

if Raj Kumar Dubey is watching it will!

[keep-it-cool]

It gets from the ridiculous to the bizarre now. I think they should consider it to be a national flag only if it is up on a flag pole. All the rest will be treated as copies and what you do with it is your business. After all tearing a xerox of your flag will not get you in jail will it?

if Raj Kumar Dubey is watching it will!

maybe not in jail .. but it will definitely land you in some court

[Blwe_torch]

Sania upset over flag controversy: Bhupathi

 
MELBOURNE, JAN 11 (PTI)

Sania Mirza is "upset" over accusations that she disrespected the National Flag and is giving a serious thought to whether she should continue with her tennis career as she frequently finds herself entangled in some or the other controversy.

"She is very upset. It is a major issue for her. At the end of the day, she is a 21-year-old girl trying to do her best by everyone," Mahesh Bhupathi, India's doubles ace and her manager, was quoted as saying by 'The Australian'.

"Everything is adding up and she is starting to wonder whether it is all worth it, but people close to her, they are telling her to hang in there," India's doubles ace said.

Sania was recently embroiled in a controversy over the shooting of a commercial in the premises of the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad and tendered an apology in the matter.

Close on its heels comes the legal case filed against her by a Bhopal resident for allegedly showing disrespect to the Tricolour.

Images of Sania putting her feet towards the flag while watching Rohan Bopanna's match at Hopman Cup in Perth were flashed all over newspapers and television channels.

If found guilty under the Prevention of Insult to the National Honour Act, Sania could face a three-year term in jail.

 
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