Controversy queen Poonam Pandey, who says she was rudely
questioned by Mumbai cops for allegedly
"misbehaving" with a man in her car here, insists
her surname goes against her image.
The incident took place Saturday night quite close to her
home on Mira Road and the man, as it turned out, was Poonam's brother.
"This is worse than the Taliban. It was 10:30 p.m. Not
even late by metropolitan standards. I was with my brother, my own brother
Aditya Pandey, and I wasn't drinking or misbehaving in the car at all when I
was questioned by cops.
She alleges that the cops behaved normally until they heard
her name.
"The minute I said I was Poonam Pandey their attitude
changed. They began to get aggressive. They wanted to know what I was doing in
the car with a man. Who mera sagaa bhai hai. My blood brother."
Poonam feels she was hauled up only because of who she was.
"The cops felt since I was Poonam Pandey, they could
create some excitement in their lives. And they got their eight minutes of fame.
Suddenly it's all over on the TV channels. All kinds of strange insinuations
are being made about my behaviour, my dress and the company I kept. If I can be
pulled up for going on a drive with my brother, I shudder to think what would
happen to any girl who goes out there with her boyfriend. I see the Talibanism
of Mumbai in the hands of the local administration."
Her surname goes against her image, she says. "Maybe the
local law and order machinery feels I am from Uttar Pradesh because my name is
Pandey, that I am an outsider. But let me inform them that I am a full blown
Mumbai girl born and brought up in the city. And if I wasn't from Mumbai and
even if I wasn't with my own brother in the car, and even if I was wearing a skimpy
dress, what gives the cops the right to question me and challenge my behaviour?
It wasn't as if I was drinking or making out in the car."
Defending her wardrobe, Poonam said the dress was certainly
not skimpy. "It was a normal full length dress. Even college girls wear
shorts and tops to the campus which are more revealing. I guess my image has
become an uncontrollable beast. Totally out of my control," she said.
Her family is in shock after Saturday night's incident
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