After the Mumbai Police filed a case against creative director from North-east Barun Kashyap for lying and misleading the police, Kashyap now claims that he has been forced to change his earlier statement and he "fears for his life".

While police today confirmed that Kashyap has been detained, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Preeti Sharma Menon has made public a statement that she says has been given by Kashyap. Menon alleged that the police swooped down on her house in Chembur and took Kashyap and her driver with them.

NO CHOICE BUT TO WRITE WHAT NAYAK SAID

In the statement, Kashyap gives a detailed account of the day he was heckled by an auto driver for allegedly carrying a bag made of cow hide. He says former encounter specialist Daya Nayak, who had been entrusted with the case, allegedly registered a "false case" against him and threatened him.

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Kashyap writes, "I was alone at the police station and under tremendous pressure and feared for my life. So I had no choice but to write what he (Nayak) said to save my life."

Elaborating on how he was allegedly made to change his statement, he writes, "They dictated me to change my version to just the autowala heckling me and that no other men joined him. He asked me to write that I had straight way taken an auto to my office. He said if I did as he said he would let me go and I would never be bothered again."

"I am disturbed that a false case has been filed against me with terrible accusations like starting a riot. I am just an ordinary working class boy. I only went to the police because I was scared when the auto driver said 'aaj toh bach gaye' as he knew my house. I never dreamed that the police would be more scary than any goonda on the road," he writes in his statement.

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