A man here was arrested for allegedly insulting the national flag and cleaning his face with it, police said on Wednesday. ?

A purported video of the act had earlier surfaced on social media and caught local people's eye who reported the matter to police. Shahrukh, a resident of village Dhel in Zarif Nagar, was booked for insulting the flag and sent to jail, Additional Superintendent of Police, Rural, Siddharth Verma. ?

In the video, Shahrukh was allegedly seen cleaning his face with the flag and then trampling it under his foot.?

(With PTI inputs)