New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a young woman was forced to remove her burqa by some locals in Bhopal’s Islamnagar village when she was passing through the area with her male friend on a scooty.
In a video of the incident going viral across social media platforms, a mob can be seen harassing the woman, who was accompanied by a man, for wearing a burqa. The man accompanying the woman tried to protest, but the mob forced her to remove the burqa.
Watch the video here:
In Islam Nagar, Bhopal, a woman was riding a scooter with a man when some people stopped her in a narrow lane and asked her to take off her hijab. It is suspected that people believed that the man was a Hindu and the girl was a Muslim. #sick mentality pic.twitter.com/CqPWOMqEn8
— Karan Pal (@karanktbd) 16 October 2021
Though the woman did not register a complaint regarding the incident, the police reportedly arrested two men, who were later released as no charges have been added in the case so far.
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