Celebrated hairstylist Jawed Habib was caught spitting on a woman’s hair instead of using water, in a video that has gone viral on social media. 

The incident reportedly took place during a training seminar in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar. The woman was sitting on a chair on the stage while Habib was working on her hair. 

The stylist is also heard saying in the clip, “Iss thook mein jaan hai’.

The authenticity of the video, its date or its source, haven’t been confirmed so far.

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Soon after it went viral, the woman from the clip opened up about her experience in another video. “Mera naam Pooja Gupta, Vanshika beauty parlour ke naam se mera parlour hai. Mai Baraut ki rehne wali hoon aur kal maine ek seminar attend kiya Jawed Habib Sir ka. Aur unhone on the stage mujhe haircut ke liye invite kiya, aur unhone itna misbehave kiya. Unhone ye dikhaya hai ki agar aapke paas paani na ho to aap apne thook se bhi haircut kara sakte ho. To maine haircut nahi karaya. Mai apni gali ke nukkad ke nai se baal katwa lungi, par kabhi Jawed Habib se nahi.”

She called the act ‘misbehaviour’ on the stylist’s part, and said she would rather get her hair cut from a local barber, than from Habib. 

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The video broke the internet as users engaged with the tweet and called out Habib’s mehaviour. One user wrote, “Can someone explain this nonsense?”, while another said, “Absolutely disgusting. And who are those people clapping? Really? REALLY?”

Apart from being a hairstylist and a businessman, Jawed Habib also set foot in politics in 2019, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi. 

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“I am happy to join the BJP as I have seen the changes brought in the country by Prime Minister Modi in the last five years. I think nobody should be ashamed of their background, when the prime minister is proud to state that he was a ‘chaiwala’ then why should I be ashamed of calling myself a ‘nai’ (barber),” Habib told the news agency, ANI, soon after his appointment.