Ukrainian singer Uma Shanti booked for insulting tricolour at Pune event; video surfaces

Popular Ukrainian singer Uma Shanti has been booked for allegedly insulting India’s national flag. Uma allegedly threw India's flag during a performance at a club in Pune’s Mundhwa Sunday night.

The singer is a front woman in the musical band ‘Shanti People’ which mixes EDM with Vedic mantras. The alleged insult of the national flag took place at a musical event organised in a restaurant-cum-bar in the Mundhwa area of the city on the eve of Independence Day (August 14), police said.

A video of the incident has gone viral on social media. The video purportedly shows the singer holding the tricolour and waving it while performing at the concert and suddenly flung the flag into the audience. Check out the video here:

Our Tricolour is our identity, a symbol of hard-fought independence. Every drop of countless soldiers' blood contributed to the colors that fly high. This act of disrespect in Pune is unacceptable. I condemn this incident and dem\olor pic.twitter.com/ryg0QBfvvR

— Shubh Sharma (@shubhxd_) August 14, 2023

“She and event organiser Kartik More have been booked under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and the Maharashtra Police Act,” the Mundhwa police station official said. Another officer said the singer and the event organiser have been issued a notice, asking them to join the probe into the incident.

(With inputs from PTI)

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