Mysore/Mysuru, April 23 -- Members of the city unit of Hindu Jagaran Vedike staged a protest last evening, alleging that employees at Lenskart outlets were being discouraged from wearing traditional Hindu symbols such as kumkum and bangles.

The protest was held outside the company's showroom on D. Devaraj Urs Road. Activists later entered the store, applied kumkum on staff members and tied saffron threads on their wrists. A similar demonstration was also held at the outlet on Kalidasa Road.

Store staff, however, told the protesters that no such restrictions were in place at the Mysuru outlets. The activists maintained that such practices had been reported elsewhere and warned that any attempt to impose similar curbs in the city would be...