Indian hotel denies Hindu-Muslim couple a room

A hotel in the Indian city of Bengaluru turned away a Hindu-Muslim couple, refusing to give them a room because of their religion.

Shafeeq Hakkim and Divya DV, a couple from Kerala were in Bengaluru for official work, and required a room to stay at Olive Residency, a local hotel but were blatantly refused after they showed their ID cards, reports India Today.

The receptionist at the hotel said a Hindu-Muslim couple cannot live together, adding that the hotel was given instructions not to give rooms to such couples.



The couple was shocked by the behaviour. “I wanted the room for just two hours since my wife Divya had come here for an interview with a prestigious law college," Hakkim said. "Divya is an LLM graduate and was looking to do her PhD here."

The receptionist accepted he was the person who refused a room to the couple and justified his actions by saying: "We don’t gives rooms to Muslims and Hindus who come together, because what if they go into the room and hang themselves. Why do we need that trouble."



When the receptionist was asked to show the hotel policy in print, the management refused. The couple then stayed at another hotel and is now planning to file a complaint with the Kerala Human Rights Commission.

Listen to the receptionist's conversation here: