Bengaluru residents confront ex-army officer after wife calls man ‘terrorist’
Bengaluru: Residents of a Bengaluru apartment confronted a former army officer and his wife, who allegedly called a Muslim man “Pakistani” and “terrorist,” after learning of his religious identity. A video of the incident has since gone viral on social media, with the residents standing outside the couple’s apartment door, stating that such behaviour would not go unchecked in Karnataka. “Yeh tumara baap ka ghar nai hai. Yeh Karnataka hai (This isn’t your father’s house. This is Karnataka),” said one of the men leading the residents. The elderly man replied that he worked in the Defence Department and was an army officer, in an attempt to intimidate the group. “If you were in the army, then you should be more patriotic,” the man retorted. “How can your wife call someone a terrorist after asking if they are Muslim?” The man brushed it off and said she must have said that during the argument when tensions were escalated. “ Woh jaghde me hogaya. Abhi chod do (It was during the argu...