SHARJAH BANS LUNGI IN PUBLIC

Sharjah Police are cracking down on people wearing lungi, a wraparound dress worn across some South Asian countries, in public. The police have already arrested an Indian and interrogated him for wearing the said attire. The man told media persons that he was recently stopped by some intelligence officers who sought to know why he was going out in public wearing a lungi. “I was caught by the police at a petrol station mart. Police asked me why I had ventured out wearing a lungi and a T-shirt.” He said he was warned not to go out dressed in that manner since there was a law that prohibited the attire. “My lungi fully covered my legs. Why did the police have to arrest me while one can see so many people wearing revealing dresses in public whom no one stops,” he bothered. While an officer said that “the decency law was implemented in Sharjah ten years ago.”