Click to play videoBangalore: No girlfriends please, we are Indians: That's what a notice at an upmarket apartment in Bangalore seems to say.
The Majestic Residency in Koramangala has put this up especially for students from the nearby Christ College who have rented flats there. It is believed that female friends who visit them are not allowed to stay back for more than half an hour.
“Girlfriends! We don't know who are coming and who are going. Who's staying overnight… and you know how bachelors are. They are standing in balconies and chatting and creating nuisance,” a senior marketing manager Mohammad Nasir said.
The girls who visit the building complex have to surrender their ID cards at the gate and after the allotted time the guard calls them up. The students say the moral policing is a big inconvenience, if not a big embarrassment.
“We have group work, projects and if not that we are bachelors we need to socialise,” a student Akash Philip said.
While another student Umang Agarwal said, “If there's some immoral activity, those students must be warned.”
But other residents say such rules are necessary as 50 per cent of the occupants in these apartments are students and it was important to “protect the children in the locality from wrong influences.”
“There are children who are asking us why these girls are going around with these boys. Such questions should not be asked at this age,” a resident Shilpa Lakshmi said.
We have heard of such rules in hostels and colleges, but it's rather unusual in an apartment complex.
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