Hyderabad, March 27 -- Hyderabad has sprung into a new debate: Should outsiders need permission to be allowed inside gated communities? And from whom? A video of a woman being asked to leave a gated community, allegedly for arbitrary reasons, has led people to ponder the stringency of visitor rules and whether private property means owners can treat 'trespassers' with indecency.

The video was originally posted by Instagram user vasanthi_singampalli, who is also a food blogger. In the caption, she recounts her experience, saying she had visited Aditya Heights, opposite Sarath City Mall in Kondapur, to meet her friends in the apartments after obtaining a valid gate pass.

However, she was stopped at the entrance and was confronted by the a...