New Delhi: Acting on a complaint by the Brahmin Jan Kalyan Samiti that Pakistani flags were being hoisted above two homes, the Gorakhpur police on Wednesday, November 10 booked four people on charges of sedition under Section 124 (A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Indian Express reported.Purported images of the Pakistani flag being hung from the roofs of the houses of the accused had gone viral on social media. This prompted Kalyan Pandey, president of the Hindu outfit to file an FIR at the Chauri Chaura police station.A mob subsequently gathered outside these houses and began shouting Hindu slogans and pelting the properties with stones. A two-wheeler belonging to one of the accused was damaged in the process.Also read: BHU: ABVP Protest Led to Withdrawal of Urdu Dept Poster Bearing Iqbal Photo, HoD ApologisesFour local businessmen – Talim, Pappu, Ashiq and Asif were booked in the FIR. Manoj Kumar Awasthi, additional superintendent of police, Gorakhpur stated that the four individuals claimed to have put up Islamic flags which had nothing to do with Pakistan. Moreover, these flags were taken down after images alleging that they were Pakistani flags began making the rounds on social media. The police searched both properties but did not find any Pakistani flags. The individuals handed over the religious flags to the police.On Thursday, the Gorakhpur police Tweeted a statement describing the incident. The statement, in Hindi, notes that the police had registered a case against four people on information that they had installed Pakistani flags and had “taken possession of the flag”. Nowhere in the statement does it note that the flags were not that no Pakistani flag was found during their search or that the flags that they confiscated were not, in fact, Pakistani flags.#gorakhpurpolice@Uppolice @AdgGkr @diggorakhpur @IPS_VipinTada pic.twitter.com/3jLnSKWmet— Gorakhpur Police (@gorakhpurpolice) November 10, 2021Gorakhpur SSP Vipin Tada told the Indian Express that the police were investigating the matter and verifying Urdu writing on one of the flags that they had taken from the scene. He also noted that the police are yet to confirm if the houses of the four individuals charged with sedition are, in fact, the ones in the images posted online and that they were looking for the person who posted the images on social media.Heavy police presence has been deployed in the area.