A Jaipur-based poet, Bappadittya Sarkar, in the city to attend a programme at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, has accused the Mumbai police and an Uber cab driver of harassing him over a phone conversation about anti-CAA protests on Wednesday night. He claims the Uber driver drove him straight to the police station after overhearing his side of the phone conversation on the protests.

I booked a cab from Silver Beach, Juhu, on Wednesday around 10.45 pm to go to Kurla, where I am staying. While in the cab, I was speaking to a friend on phone about protest cultures in different cities, Shaheen Bagh, people's discomfort with Laal Salaam and how we could make Jaipur's protests more effective," Sarkar told mid-day.