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 Mirza is in the news yet again for the wrong reason. Just a few days after getting respite from the Mecca Masjid controversy where she had to apologise for shooting a commercial in the Masjid premises, a Bhopal resident has filed a case against her for allegedly showing disrespect to the national flag.

On Thursday, Prakash Kumar Thakur of Bhopal filed the case in the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court under Section 2 of the Prevention of Insult to the National Honour Act of 1971.
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.

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