AHMEDABAD, Gujarat state, India (NNN-Bernama) -- The owners of a garment store named Hitler in the city said they will change the shop's name following intervention by Israel and the local Jew community.
"We have voluntarily decided to change the name of our shop within this week and will remove the billboard displaying Hitler's name," Rajesh Shah, one of the owners of the shop located in Vastrapur, told Press Trust of India.
The 'i' in 'Hitler' is dotted with a Nazi swastika, which had stirred a controversy among local Jews.
A group of Jews from a synagogue had earlier demanded that the shop owners change the controversial name, saying it hurt the sentiments of their community.
Israel counsel-general Orna Sagiv, who is currently visiting West Indian Gujarat state, had taken up the matter with top state officials here.
"I met the officials in Gujarat and expressed my concern about this shop and why we take the matter so seriously," she said.
In the last few years, similar incidents have happened in Nagpur and Navi Mumbai, where shop owners changed their stores' names following complaints.
The shop in Vastrapur selling western menswear opened last month and chose its name as an attribute to the grandfather of one of the shop owners, who was nicknamed Hitler for being very strict. -- NNN-BERNAMA
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