Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, a group of miscreants, said to be Hindutva activists, abused and harassed an Australian couple at a restaurant here, even threatening to skin the young man’s leg, for sporting the tattoo of Hindu “goddess” Yellamma on his shin.
Their ordeal did not end there as the city police not only detained them but also forced the helpless man to apologise to the group of miscreants for ‘hurting their religious sentiments.’
The incident happened around 2 p.m. when Matthew Gordon (21) and his girl friend Emily Kassianou (20) from Melbourne were spotted by the group.
“One of them came to me and confronted me about my tattoo. Soon, they surrounded us and threatened to skin my leg and remove the tattoo,” a shaken Gordon, a law student, said.
The group soon called in more people and over 25 men gathered outside the eatery, not allowing the couple to leave. “A policeman arrived and said this is India and one couldn’t sport such a tattoo on the leg,” Mr. Gordon recalled.
(Agencies)
