Three arrested for replacing mosque flag with saffron in Uttar Pradesh

Three men were arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly removing a flag from a mosque and replacing it with a saffron flag, a police officer said.

Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Meena said, “Some miscreants climbed up a mosque in the Lalbagh area under Ramchandra



Mission Police Station Monday night. The accused removed a green coloured flag from the mosque and replaced it with a saffron flag.”

Meena said the three men, identified as Ankit Katheria, Rohit Joshi and Rohit Saxena, were arrested at the complaint of local residents.