CHENNAI: A video of a religious procession has gone viral. In the footage, a man is seen forcing a boy holding a saffron flag to halt, while another man snatches it from his hand. It was claimed that the video is from Panipat, Haryana, where a Muslim man is alleged to have attacked a Hindu carrying a Hanuman flag and had thrown it on the ground.

AltNews found that the village sarpanch Sanjay Tyagi had taken a saffron flag from a Bajrang Dal member to avoid a possible religious conflict in the Sanauli village of Panipat.