当然，不尊重国旗在大部分国家都是一件大事，印度更是自1971年引入防止冒犯国家荣誉法（Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act ） ， 将此列为犯罪行为，任何人如果“切割、涂销、玷污、损毁、踩踏或表现出不尊重”印度国旗，都可以判处徒刑。
Of course, disrespect for the national flag is derided in most countries, and has been a criminal offense in India since 1971, with the adoption of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, which threatens whoever “mutilates, defaces, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon, or otherwise shows disrespect to” the Indian flag with imprisonment.