A couple travelling through Bengaluru late at night alleged "invasive" checking by the police on Reddit, and the post quickly garnered attention, with some pointing out that such invasions of privacy had become "very normal" in the city, and others bashing the cops for what they described as downright "harassment".

In the post on the r/Bangalore, a sub- Reddit with over one million members, the couple described their ordeal while they were travelling from the J P Nagar via Uber at around 2 am.

The 27-year-old man who made the post alleged that his 33-year-old partner was asked to step out and subjected to a full-body frisk. When he tried to step out and intervene, the cops stopped him and instead made him open his laptop bag.

They checked "every single pocket, even the hidden comp

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