An elderly Dalit sarpanch was allegedly manhandled by an upper-caste secretary of the gram panchayat as the former hoisted the flag on the occasion of Independence Day on Sunday. The incident took place in Bundelkhand of Madhya Pradesh. Locals contacted Hannu Basor, sarpanch of village Dhamchi in Chhatarpur, and told him that he should hoist the National Flag because the