Hyderabad: Three software engineers from Hyderabad and a cinematographer from Mumbai were harassed by the police during their vacation at a resort in Eegalapenta village of Mahabubnagar district two days back.
The friends, all in their early thirties, claimed they felt extremely unsafe when three policemen suddenly arrived at the door and started shouting at them for stating that they were disregarding Indian culture and staying in one room without being married.
Shreya Datta, a software engineer, who has been working in Hyderabad for about two years, had booked a double room for herself and a friend at Hilltop Mrugavani Resorts for about Rs 8,000.
They were supposed to stay on June 21 night and return to Hyderabad June 22 when two more friends joined in for the weekend trip, she called the resort to ask for another room, but there was no vacancy, police disclosed.
During multiple calls with the resort staff, they were assured that they would provide them with mattresses and did not seem to have any problem with the arrangement, sources said.
When Sherya and others checked in, they asked for Sherya’s ID proof because the room was booked on her name and Sherya gave it to them.
But three police personal arrived at the door with the hotel staff and reportedly asked the techs where they asked all of them, including women, to step out of the room and began to shout and educate them about Indian culture, sources disclosed.
One of the cops said unmarried men and women should not stay in a room, said Arani Majumder, a software engineer who has been working in Hyderabad for more than eight years.
However, the software engineers who had come for a vacation were humiliated and finally left the place, sources disclosed.
