Published 14:53 IST, July 13th 2020
Taapsee Pannu has sarcastic response on Gujarat cop's transfer for confronting MLA's son
Taapsee Pannu had a quirky response on a Gujarat constable's transfer for stopping an MLA's son. She said reality was making up for lack of films currently.
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Taapsee Pannu had a quirky response to news of a Gujarat police constable being transferred for stopping son of a Member of Legislative Assembly. actor equated news to that of a film’s script. Thappad star quipped that since shooting of films was currently stalled due to COVID-19 pandemic, reality was making up for it.
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Taapsee took to Twitter to react to a news report of incident.
Here’s tweet
video of a female police constable named Sunita Yadav arguing with MLA Kumar Kanani's son Prakash Kanani and his friends for allegedly violating lockdown and night curfew orders in Surat had gone viral on social media, with even politicians sharing it. In video, cop is heard talking to Kumar Kanani on call, "So what if you are a minister, don’t rules apply to you ?" She also said, "You are Health Minister, your kin should be wearing a mask and following rules more stringently.”
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men reportedly told constable y had power to "make you stand at same place for 365 days", to which she replied that she was t ir ‘slave.’
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Following uproar, MLA’s son and his two friends were arrested under IPC Sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269, 270 (negligent and malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), and 144 (abettor present when offence committed), Assistant Commissioner of Police, A-Division, C K Patel informed. C K Patel shared that Sunita Yadav had gone on sick leave and a probe was underway into incident. Congress National Convener Saral Patel claimed she was pulled up by her seniors and she resigned, but it is being reported that she has been transferred to police headquarters.
This is t first time that Taapsee had a Bollywood-inspired response to a political event. actor had a sarcastic response to recent encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey as well. She jokingly stated that people had t ‘expected it’ and quipped that Bollywood stories were termed ‘far from reality.’
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14:53 IST, July 13th 2020