In the build up to Saturday's final, the area around the Wankhede Stadium had become a mini shopping zone for salesman who were selling tricolour flags. Unfortunately, this flouted every rule in the tricolour code that governs how the Indian flag is to be treated.


Flag sellers kept Indian flags on roads,u00a0 violating the Indian
Flag code.

SMD spotted a seller who had kept the flags on the footpath near CST station and was selling them for Rs 20 a piece while a gathered crowd stamped them unknowingly.

All of this goes against parts of the Indian Flag code that reads: "The tiranga must not be allowed to touch the ground or the floor or trail in water. The tiranga must not be used as a festoon, rosette or bunting or in any other manner for decoration."