Uber Driver Who Took Anti-CAA Protester To Police, Bags A Role In Movie In Himachal Pradesh

On February 7th, a phone discussion about the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest made a cab driver take his passenger not to the destination that the cab was hired for but to the police station.

Reports confirmed that the Uber cab driver took his passenger, 23-year-old activist Bappaditya Sarkar to a police station in the city. Sarkar, a resident of Rajasthan's Jaipur, was visiting a friend in Kurla area.

Police questioned him for almost two hours. The cab driver told the passenger that he would be taking a detour for withdrawing money from an ATM. Instead, he took Sarkar to Santacruz Police Station.

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According to police, the driver told them that the passenger was anti-national and was talking about dividing the country and could turn out to be a danger for society.

The police recorded the statements of the two but did not find anything suspicious and therefore let them go. After a thread on the incident went viral on social media platform Twitter, the Mumbai Police and Uber India took cognizance of the matter.

In just a few days of the incident, Mumbai BJP president M P Lodha felicitated the Uber driver who took a Jaipur-based poet to Santacruz police station after he overheard a conversation on the ongoing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The driver was garlanded near Santacruz police station in the presence of several local BJP leaders and workers. "He performed the duty of an alert citizen. Uber did wrong by barring him," Lodha told The Indian Express.

However, later on, the cab aggregator temporarily suspended the driver Rohit Singh. ¡°Your safety is something we take seriously and we would not want you to pay for the inconvenience caused,¡± Uber informed poet Bappaditya Sarkar, who returned to Rajasthan from Mumbai. ¡°We want to inform you that we have temporarily restricted the driver¡¯s access to the Uber app while the investigation is underway,¡± the cab aggregator added.

And now, just 72 hours after he got suspended by Uber, Gour has already has landed a role in a movie.

A Mumbai Mirror report confirmed the news and quoted him as saying, ¡°I¡¯ll soon be leaving for Himachal Pradesh where the movie will be shot. I have a small role." He didn't divulge into any further details about the movie.