Continued from page u0010 u000f SPEAKING to mid- day, Gaur said, u201c I am a part- time Uber driver and I usually drive in the evenings. I got the booking at Silver Beach around u0090 u009d . u0090 u00a0 pm and picked up Sarkar from there. I was driving towards Kurla when he started talking on the phone and discussing something related to the ongoing Shaheen Bagh protest. So, initially, I thought he was returning from one such protest, but wasnu2019t suspicious of the way he was dressed.u201d u201c I heard him saying over phone that he had composed several poems and women were liking them a lot. He said, u2018 We should target the female audience and form something like Shaheen Bagh in Mumbaiu2019. Later, he told the caller that u2018 nahi bhai, Mumbai police are too strict unlike the cops in other statesu2019. He had plans to go to Nagpur, Shaheen Bagh and . aipur,u201d added Gaur.

u201c But I was shocked when he said, u2018 ab to desh jalne hi wala haiu2019. That is when I decided to record the conversation on my phone.