The south Delhi restaurant which allegedly denied entry to a differently-abled activist had been “insensitive” towards him, a magisterial inquiry ordered by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has concluded.
Government sources said the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, in the report, said the footage of CCTV installed outside the restaurant showed that the restaurant’s staff members stopped Nipun Malhotra from entering the eating joint.
The SDM, in his report, recommended that the government should give a stern warning to the restaurant management and frame guidelines about sensitive behaviour towards differently abled persons in the national capital. The report has been submitted to the office of the Deputy CM.
Malhotra, who was born with arthrogryposis, a rare congenital disorder, which leads to lack of muscles in arms and legs, had allegedly been denied entry at the restaurant in a south Delhi’s mall on the evening of March 6.
“In the inquiry report, it was stated that the restaurant was insensitive towards Nipun Malhotra. The footage of CCTV also showed that Malhotra was denied entry and some force was also used to stop him,” the sources said.
They said the report states that the call records of Nipun showed that he called up the manager of restaurant several times on the evening of March 6, but despite that he was not allowed to enter the restaurant.