Something Rotten
On 8 June, around noon, four people in ordinary clothes abducted me from the front of my house in Mandawali, on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border. “You had tweeted against Baba ji,” they said, referring to the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Adityanath. “Now face the consequences.” On hearing this, the first thought that entered my mind was that these people must be from the Bajrang Dal or the Vishva Hindu Parishad. Out of them, two had worn chappals, which made it difficult to confirm whether they were from the police. The car in which they pushed me appeared to be private car, not a police vehicle. They raced it to Noida, inside Uttar Pradesh. After an argument in the car, they revealed that they belonged to the Lucknow police and had come to arrest me. When asked what the matter was, they replied that it was my tweet about Adityanath in which a woman claimed that she was Adityanath’s lover. I had written the
