NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Centre two weeks to reply on a plea seeking a ban on hoisting of green flags with a crescent and a star at buildings and religious places across the country.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi heard the plea filed by Shia Waqf Board chairman Syed Waseem Rizvi. Rizvi, in his petition, has claimed that green flags with a crescent and a star are “unIslamic” and resemble the flag of Pakistan and its Muslim League party. Rizvi had filed the petition in April last year.

Rizvi had stated that the flag owes its origins to the erstwhile political party, the All-India Muslim League founded by Nawaz Waqar Ul-Malik and Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1906 in Dhaka . In the present day, it is being used by Indian Muslims as an Islamic flag.

