Barber's body to boycott customer who filed police complaint

A barber's association here has decided not to provide its services to a local resident who filed a police complaint against a barber for shaving off his moustache allegedly without consent.

Kiran Thakur (35) last Tuesday told Nagpur police in Maharashtra that when he visited a salon in Kanhan area here for a hair cut and a shave, the barber, Sunil Lakshane, chopped off his moustache without asking him.

On reaching home, when a peeved Thakur rang Lakshane, the latter allegedly used threatening language, the complainant said and filed a non-cognisable offence under IPC Section 507 (criminal intimidation) against the barber.

In view of the incident, the 'Nabhik Ekta Manch' here has decided not to provide any services to Thakur.

Talking to PTI, the association's president, Sharad Watkar, said, "The charges against Lakshane are false and baseless. He had asked the customer before shaving off his moustache."