New Delhi - Municipal officials have uprooted benches from a park patronised by courting couples in the western Indian city of Bombay, replacing them with single seats so that they sit separately and do not "misbehave", Rahul Bedi reports.
As part of its campaign to discourage loving couples from patronising Five Gardens at Dadar, Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials said the single seats had been so arranged that "concerned citizens" could sit in front of couples and pointedly embarrass them into not touching or kissing one another.
"I was determined to put an end to this indecency," said Mr Babubhai Bhawanji, the local BMC member whose Hindu fundamentalist party controls the corporation.