Hyderabad, July 26 -- In a scene straight out of a dystopian playbook, officials from the Chaderghat police station on the pretext of detecting crime, randomly checked phones and pockets of young men sitting in a cafe. Many on social media have called out the Hyderabad police, questioning the legality of the move, given that it points towards the violation of one's right to privacy.

A video of the incident surfaced on social media a day earlier on July 25, wherein a group of cops from the Chaderghat police station descend upon the cafe (which has not been identified) and randomly begin asking young men, visibly Muslim, for their phones and for them to empty their pockets.

This is however not the first time that something like this has h...