A 25-year-old man was arrested in the Shahjahanpur district of India’s Uttar Pradesh state for sporting a burqa to hide his identity, police said on Thursday.
The arrested citizen has been charged with “breach of the peace,” police added.
During interrogation, the man told police that he had to move out of the village after getting a job elsewhere and wanted to meet his girlfriend before leaving. He donned a burqa so that locals did not recognize him.
However, local residents suspected it was not a woman wearing the cover, and he was reported to police.