Valentine Day Fun With Police.

Police captured six individuals from a hard-line Hindu gathering on Saturday for assaulting and trimming the hair of three couples on Valentine's Day close to the Taj Mahal – India's white-marble landmark to love.

In the interim, individuals from another gathering vandalized a shop offering Valentine's cards and attacked an eatery searching for sentimental couples in the Indian divide of Kashmir.

Open presentations of affection are disapproved of by the more seasoned era in India. Kissing, clasping hands and snuggling are all social taboos, however the inundation of Western culture has made it a more regular practice among more youthful couples.

The dissenters utilized scissors to trim the hair of plainly sentimental youthful couples in a recreation center in the northern Indian city of Agra, said director of police V.P. Ashok.

India's monetary surge as of late has carried with it the trappings of Western culture, including McDonald's, MTV and Valentine's Day. Shops stock cards and chocolates, merchants offer red roses and eateries offer sentimental specials.

In Srinagar, the principle city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, about six burqa-clad individuals from the radical Islamic ladies' gathering Dukhtaran-e-Millat tore up Valentine's Day cards in a blessing shop, shop proprietor Shaukat Ahmed said.

The dissenters additionally entered an eatery searching for couples praising their adoration yet didn't discover any.

The association has attempted to authorize a strict Islamic clothing standard in the Himalayan locale.

Ahmed said the dissenters portrayed the cards as "un-Islamic."
"They cleared out after I let them know that I won't offer these cards later on," he told AP.

In the southern condition of Karnataka, police protectively confined 140 individuals from the conservative Hindu gathering Sri Smash Sene on Friday, The Indian Express daily paper reported.

The confinements came weeks after some gathering individuals assaulted youthful couples in a bar in the city of Mangalore in the state.

Powers likewise wiped out classes at Lucknow College on Saturday to avert assaults. Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.

Madhu Chandra, an outstanding New Delhi-based human rights lobbyist, emphatically shielded the common freedoms of couples.

"It's the privilege of each Indian subject to express our adoration in the way satisfactory, or in the Indian route, or in the English path, or in the Islamic way," he said.
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