In another case of moral policing in the IT capital, a young woman who was riding pillion with her boyfriend was stopped and harassed by a passerby for “not following Indian rules”.
The incident happened at Bengaluru’s HSR Layout on Thursday night. “You must follow Indian rules. Please wear proper clothes,” the stranger yelled at the 28-year-old techie from Mumbai who was wearing shorts.
The incident was shot on a mobile camera by her boyfriend and later uploaded on Facebook, sparking an outrage.
“I heard someone yelling. I was riding pillion and I looked to my right side. There was a man on a two-wheeler, who began yelling at me and said, ‘Don’t you have any clothes at home?',” the woman told The News Minute.
She also said the the man further argued that Indian women must not wear “such” clothes.
“Maybe he expected us to be scared. I also told him that I would go to the police. That’s when he got back on his bike and fled,” she told the portal.
Despite several protests and outrages, incidents of faux morality are on the rise in the city. In March, several students of Christ University took to social media to share their experiences of being ‘morally policed’ even by cops.
