One cannot complain enough about the levels of discrimination tenants have to face sometimes in the hands of landlords depending on their caste, gender, religion, marital status and even food habits. Unmarried men and women find it particularly difficult to bring visitors of the opposite sex, save living on rent with members of the opposite sex.

In the backdrop of such everyday discrimination, Gurgaon’s Essel Towers has prominently stood out after videos surfaced showing the society’s RWA members preventing tenants from bringing in visitors of the opposite sex.

The scuffle between the RWA members and a few of the bachelor tenants of Essel Towers’ Pilot Court broke out around 8 pm on 4 August and continued till 2 am, when a few female tenants were stopped from letting their visitors in well before the curfew time of 10 pm. The crowd grew in size as a tenant named Abhay (name changed) was disallowed from taking his sister to his apartment. Despite him providing proofs of his sister’s identity, the RWA members were seen blocking the entrance not budging from their decision.