Claim: Young men were caught by locals for waving the Pakistani flag and handed over to the Baghpat police in Uttar Pradesh.
Fact-check: UP Police clarified that the religious flag carried by youths in Baghpat was not the Pakistan flag - FACTLY
Verdict: the incident occurred on 16 september 2024, when gauspur residents arbaaz and aamir were waving green flags on the meerut-baghpat highway. suspecting it to be a pakistani flag, hindu activists chased and beat them. nearby shopkeepers intervened and handed them to the police. in a social media post on x, the baghpat police clarified that the accusation was false and that the green cloth was related to the eid-e-milad festival, not the pakistani flag. hence, the claim in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Nitish Kumar Dhonge
Date published: 2024-09-19T12:21:33