Mohammad Akil Malik

For slapping actress Gauhar Khan because he didn’t like her dress sense

Mohammad Akil Malik’s rationale for having slyly crept up to the actress Gauhar Khan when she was hosting a reality show in Film city, Goregaon (located in the western suburbs of Mumbai) and then slapping her is that he was attracted to her. That, he believes, gave him the right to decide what she should be wearing, to get onto the sets of a reality show and express his disapproval. When her attire and his vision of her didn’t match, his response was violence.

According to the tabloid Mid-Day, Malik’s police statement states that he intended the slap to be a lesson for all women who wore short skirts because such clothes had a damaging influence on the brains of young people like him. And crime would also decrease as skirts got longer. Malik would be a good participant in a theatre of the absurd if not for the fact that a large number of men in India subscribe to his view.

Recently, a Hindu Mahasabha spokesperson said jeans were okay but wanted to ban half-jeans. Possibly, he has an allergy to knees. Such people, of whom Malik is one representative, claim ownership over the bodies of all women because they are afraid of the illness that festers inside them.

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