Mandira Bedi in Controversy Over Tattoo

She may have turned heads with her appearance as a cricket anchor but model-cum-actress Mandira Bedi's "extra innings" with a Sikh religious symbol has raked up a storm in the Sikh-dominated Punjab. Anti-Mandira protests were held in Ludhiana and other cities in the state after she appeared on Tuesday on the ramp with a Sikh religious symbol tattooed on her bare back.

Mandira Bedi landed in a thick controversy when she appeared on ramp with a Sikh religious symbol tattoo on her bare back on Tuesday. The tattoo of ‘Ekom Kar’ (God is one) in Gurmukhi. These are the first words of the holy Sikh scripture.

Model-turned-actress and TV anchor Mandira Bedi has once again earned the ire of the Sikh community for sporting an Ek Onkar (God is one) tattoo on her nape, with community leaders threatening to drag her to court for hurting religious sentiments if she did not have the tattoo removed immediately.