A Sikh student has claimed he was told to leave a bar by door staff because he was wearing a turban.
Amrik Singh, 22, was asked to leave Rush Late Bar in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, because he was wearing ‘headgear’.
Mr Singh said he felt ‘victimised’ by the doorman and the Nottingham Trent University law student recorded the incident.
In the recording, he can be heard asking the doorman why he has to leave.
The unnamed doorman replies ‘that’s just our policy’ and adds, ‘I didn’t think you were allowed to come for a drink anyway’.
Mr Singh, who worked at Bhatia Best Solicitors in Nottingham on his university placement year, said he was left ‘heartbroken’ and ‘upset’ by the incident.
Mr Singh said: ‘I had finished a module on my course and some people I used to work with at the solicitors said I should come up to Mansfield to celebrate.
‘We decided to go out for some drinks and ended up in Rush Late Bar which was all fine, about half an hour into being there I got a tap on my shoulder and a bouncer just said to me ‘take it off’.
The incident occurred at the Rush Late Bar in Mansfield with the doorman telling the student they ‘don’t allow headgear’
‘I was confused at first and then he said that I wasn’t allowed to wear headgear in the venue and I shouldn’t have been let in.
‘I explained that a turban isn’t just headgear, but part of my religion and that it protected my hair – and that I was allowed to wear a turban in public.
‘The bouncer ignored this and said I needed to take it off. I refused and was subsequently dragged away from my friends, which was humiliating and I felt victimised.’
Mr Singh said he decided to film the incident after seeing a similar incident recently where a student at Nottingham Trent filmed racist chanting outside her door.
He said: ‘I knew that if I recorded it I could prove it happened and seeing how other recent stories have become high profile though social media I knew that I couldn’t just let this discrimination go ahead.
‘The worst part of it was the fact he compared my turban to wearing a pair of trainers.’
In a statement to councillor Sonya Ward, who represents Labour in Mansfield, Rush Late Bar said that it was not their policy.
A representative for the bar told the councillor: ‘Good morning, this is absolutely not our policy.
‘We are investigating this incident and the security member in question has been suspended.’
The bar has been contacted for further comment.