Hyderabad, May 27 -- In a shocking incident of racial profiling, a Hyderabad journalist based in Vijaywada faced an embarrassing police enquiry thanks to nosy neighbours who "thought he was a Muslim" moving around suspiciously. The complainant, his own neighbour, shockingly assumed that the reporter was "a terrorist", and bizarrely told the police that the journalist also "looked like a Pakistani".

The incident took place two days ago, when the journalist in question heard a knock on his door at 12:45 am. To his surprise, two police officials turned up at his house after receiving a complaint about him looking "suspicious".

"Everyone in the building knows I'm a journalist, and the fact that they called the police assuming I am a Muslim ...