Overview

• Fatema Khatun was arrested under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, after a video appeared to show her using her knees and feet to fold the Indian national flag.
• The footage, recorded on Saturday at her school in Nagaon district, Assam, showed her lowering the tricolour alone and attempting to fold it in an objectionable manner.
• Police said she had hoisted the flag before students on Independence Day but returned at 7:30 am the next day after locals complained that it remained raised overnight.
• Social media users quickly shared the clip, intensifying public outrage and prompting swift law enforcement action.
• She has been remanded to 14 days of judicial custody while investigations under the flag protocol law continue.