Originally Posted by
vsuri
It's allowed under very limited conditions. If they want to punish someone for flag handling, it's still way too easy to do so IMO.
That article seems to confirm that "ordinary Indian citizens generally don't have the ordinary right to even fly an Indian flag however and whenever they wish to do so even on their own property." The high flagpole and lit at night requirement speak toward confirmation of my words.
Given the withdrawal of legal tender characteristics of the notes in question, if there is an legal prohibition against the public destroying/defacing Indian currency, perhaps the risk is less in the burning of the notes than in it being taken as an offensive act of a different nature than cash/coin destruction/defacing?