Uber driver calls cops over passenger’s alleged anti-national phone conversation in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Bappadittya Sarkar, a 23-year-old poet from Jaipur, landed in police station after an Uber driver called the police for making “anti-national” statements over the phone.

The driver suspected that Sarkar was a “communist” and he posed danger to the country.

Sarkar who had called for the Uber to go from Juhu to Kurla around 10.30 pm on Wednesday was talking to a friend on the phone over people’s discomfort with ‘Laal Salaam’

During the journey, he was discussing with his friend on mobile phone people’s discomfort with 'Laal Salaam’ slogan at Shaheen Bagh protest in Delhi. After a while the driver said that he wanted to withdraw money from the ATM, instead, he returned with the cops who asked him why he was carrying a Daafli.

Only then Sarkar had noticed that the driver had parked outside Santacruz police station.

Sarkar was taken to the police station. The driver had alleged that the poet was a communist and was talking about “burning the country.”

Kavita Krishnan, Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association had tweeted, “Last night, poet @Bappadittoh had a scary episode in Mumbai, at the hands of an @Uber driver and @MumbaiPolice cops (see screenshots): a glimpse of scary India under NPR NRC CAA, where every person will be incentivised to suspect & turn in others & police can harass everyone.”

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