Recently, Arpan Verma made news with his objection to the falling hygiene standards in a Jaipur Branch of Cafe Coffee Day. His visit led to his discovery of a host of cockroaches that were crawling in the refrigerator where the staff stocked food and beverages. On attempting to record the insects in the display case – a female staff member assaulted him, insisting he was harassing her – trying to get her photograph. You would think the man earned an apology from both Cafe Coffee Day and the Department of Consumer Affairs, you would think the brand would issue some kind of public apology – but instead, guess what happened.

The matter came into the public eye after Arpan and his friend Nikhil uploaded the video to Twitter, calling out CCD on their lax standards and incredibly misbehaved staff. Despite this acting as evidence in his defence, Arpan is apparently to be arrested for assaulting the employee who attacked him.

https://twitter.com/nikhilanand88/status/845686506614390784

Even if we leave aside the matter of terrible treatment of a paying customer – is the atmosphere in our country really this malleable to false allegations? And is it truly that easy to cover your tracks using a legitimate problem millions of women face in this country every day? This is not something can be fixed via a clever Tweet or even a thousand articles like this one. The deeply rooted habit of manipulating narratives by large corporations and administrative bodies needs to stop so that the population can actually have faith in its media, government and services.

The legitimacy of any claim of assault isn’t up for grabs to the highest bidder.

Cafe Coffee Day posted an update on their Social Media handles which looked like this –

https://www.facebook.com/cafecoffeeday/posts/10154476736849499

Here are the updates by Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj who seems to be raising her voice on behalf of Arpan Verma and constantly posting updates about the case –

https://www.facebook.com/deepika.bhardwaj/posts/10158779941900221

https://www.facebook.com/deepika.bhardwaj/posts/10158789695515221

Share this as much as you can so that more people read what’s happening in the name of sexual harassment and who is the real victim in this case.

Arpan had thanked social media for coming out in his support a couple of days ago –

https://www.facebook.com/arpan.verma.94/posts/1460069620732748

Its time we support him again and ask the police to get to the bottom of this issue and bring the real culprit to justice.

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