Watch: Female security guard makes women take off their burkhas in St George's Hospital, Mumbai

On Thursday, a video surfaced on social media which allegedly showed a female security guard asking women to take off their burqas before entering a hospital ward. 

The video, which has been accssed by Zee, and shot by a Chembur resident shows a woamn taking off her burqa. 

The incident occurred on July 17, 2019 in Mumbai’s St George Hospital. The video shows a Muslim woman taking her burqa off and it appears that a female security guard of the hospital asked the Muslim women wearing burqas take them off.

She allegedly only allowed women to enter the delivery ward after they  took off their veils. 

Following the inciden, Mukhtar Sheikh, a Chembur resident who had come for his treatment in St George's Hospital's, recorded the incident.

Recently, Sri Lanka banned the burqa following the deadly serial blasts that killed 250 people in April.

Shiv Sena, BJP’s ally and a prominent party in Mumbai had asked for a ban on the burqua in light o ‘national security’ in its mouthpiece Saamna

Watch: Female security guard asks Muslim women to remove burkha before entering delivery ward at St George's hospital in Mumbai pic.twitter.com/lRt3SbTaym

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