Times have changed for the better and people have stopped taking body-shaming for granted. In fact, victims of body-shaming have now been taking to social media to share their stories and influence public discourse. In one such outrageous incident, 30-year-old Mumbai resident Asmi Shah posted an incident where she was asked by an auto-driver to get off his auto because she was “too fat”.

Shah took to Twitter to share the incident and number plate of the auto with Mumbai police. “#bodyshaming act by auto driver! I was made to get off the auto because Im #Fat,” she wrote.



The travel agent by profession and resident of Santacruz took an auto from her area and after travelling for a while, the auto-driver started passing snide comments. “He started the auto and after we had traveled a few metres, he asked me to sit in the middle of the seat instead of the corner. I obliged. Since I had to pick up my mother on the way, I asked him to stop at a point. He then asked me if the person who I was picking up was as fat as me. I was shocked and told him not to be so rude and mind his language. He then told me that “main mote logon ko apne auto mein nahi bithata (I don’t let fat people sit in my auto) I was stunned by his behaviour,” she told Mumbai Mirror.

Shah says that she was then asked to leave the auto to which she refused but he stopped the auto. She got down and took photo of the number plate. Shah has reported the matter to local and traffic police, but is yet to get a response.

@asmi17 Please share detail address. — Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) April 8, 2016

“It’s not that I want to see him punished but this discrimination has to stop. Today he said no to me as I was fat. Tomorrow it could be someone else. He can’t go on insulting people like this. I just want to teach him a lesson,” she was quoted as saying.

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