New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- On Reddit, a 21-year-old man shared a troubling experience near the Mata Bahuchar temple in Becharaji, Mahesana, Gujarat. He said he was walking back to his hotel when a car stopped in the middle of the road.

"Mind you, I'm a guy," the Reddit poster wrote.

A man stepped out, came at him angrily and shouted about his clothes. The youngster was wearing shorts ("half-lowers"). The stranger said such dress was not allowed there, claimed "our maa-behen (mothers and sisters) live here".

According to the man, he never wears shorts even at home. He then threatened to beat him and boasted that the police could do nothing. He flashed an army-style tag from his car and bragged about having beaten "150 people".

It happened a...