driver

rickshaw

Mumbai

Indian Penal Code

Amboli Police Station

THE FACEBOOK POST, WHICH WAS A LIE

Assam

Bangladesh

Confesses to cops that he lied about being harassed by autoover leather bag.Turns out it was a lie after all. Barun Kashyap, the man who alleged that adriver harassed him for carrying a leather bag, has been booked by the cops for cooking up the whole story.Kashyap has confessed to the police that he lied, although the motive is still not clear.''After collecting the technical evidence, we found out that Kashyap was at his residence during the alleged crime. After detailed interrogation of Kashyap, he confessed that he lied to us,” said Satyanarayan Chaudhary, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Zone IX, who supervised the investigation.On August 19, Kashyap, a creative director with a production house, had claimed that the driver of an auto rickshaw he was travelling in, sniffed his leather bag and said his bag was made of leather.Kashyap had claimed that he somehow managed to escape after the driver warned him saying “Aaj toh bach gaya tu”.After his post went viral,Police lodged a complaint against an unknown rickshaw driver under Section 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of“He provided the last 4 digits of the auto rickshaw’s number plate, based on which we interrogated 49 rickshaw drivers. We also prepared a sketch as described by him and rounded up 50 rickshaw drivers,” said DCP Chaudhary.“Kashyap, in his statement, had told us that he was bullied by three other rickshaw drivers near the RTO office. After thorough investigation, we started verifying the claims of Kashyap,” added DCP Chaudhary.Police has lodged a case against Kashyap atunder Section 153 (a)(1)(a)(b) (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 182 (b) (False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person) and 505 (1)(2) (Statements conducing to public mishcief) of Indian Penal Code.Police is still trying to verify the motive behind Kashyap’s lie.“I hailed an auto outside my Andheri building to go to work (in the same suburb) around 11-11.30am, planning to stop at a bank on the way to deposit cash. The auto driver peered at me curiously... He asked me in English where I was from and I replied... after a while, he asked if the state was located near. I said yes, the auto driver started to drive. At a traffic signal, the driver told me that his leather bag was stinking. I told him it happens in the monsoon when the bag gets wet. He wasn’t convinced and touched the bag when I wasn’t looking. He then said the bag was made of cow hide. I told him it was camel leather. But the answer did not satisfy him and he argued. While passing a temple, he stopped the vehicle and gestured at a couple of men. One of the men then poked his head into the auto and touched my bag. All this while, I was protesting... Eventually, the auto driver started driving. I had glanced at four digits on the vehicle number plate and made a mental note of it when the driver said, ‘Aaj toh bach gaye’ (you were saved today).