A woman was allegedly denied entry on the Golden Temple in Punjab’s Amritsar as a result of a tricolour painted on her face.
A video of the incident has been making rounds on social media which exhibits a guard on the holy shrine turning away the woman.
In the video, the woman may be seen approaching the shrine when the guard asks her to wash the flag tattoo from her face after which enter the shrine. To this the woman questions, “Is this not India?”
The guard solutions, “This is not India, this is Punjab.” Following this a spat broke out between the guests and the clip ends with the guard making an attempt to seize the woman’s telephone.
Temple authorities apologise
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which handles the administration of the Golden Temple, issued a clarification after the video went viral.
“This is a Sikh shrine. Every religious place has its own decorum…We welcome everyone…We apologise if an official misbehaved…The flag on her face was not our national flag as it didn’t have Ashoka Chakra. It could have been a political flag,” Gurcharan Singh Grewal, SGPC General Secretary mentioned on the viral video.
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