New Delhi: Television actress Sumona Chakravarti, best known for The Kapil Sharma Show, had a harrowing experience in Mumbai. In a disturbing incident, her car was mobbed in a broad daylight during the Maratha quota protest in South Mumbai on August 31. She also shared that it was the first time that she felt “unsafe” in Mumbai, leaving her distressed.

She described the ordeal in an Instagram post where she expressed feeling “vulnerable”. For the unversed, the protest, led by Manoj Jarange at Azad Maidan had entered its third day with thousands demanding a 10 per cent reservation for Marathas under the OBC category.

Taking to Instagram, she recounted that a man banged on her car’s bonnet, smirked and pressed his belly against her vehicle while other chanted ‘Jai Maharashtra’. She shared that a similar incident happened five minutes later with no police around.

Questioning law and order, she wrote, “No law & order. Just me, in my car, in broad daylight, in South Bombay-feeling unsafe. And the streets? Piled with banana peels, plastic bottles, filth. Pavements taken over. Protesters eating, sleeping, bathing, cooking, pissing, shitting, video calling, making reels, doing Mumbai darshan in the name of protest. A complete mockery of civic sense.”

She further added, “But today, for the first time in years, in broad daylight inside the safety of my own car I felt genuinely unsafe. Vulnerable. And I suddenly felt lucky-lucky that a male friend was with me. I couldn’t help but think, if I had been alone, then what??? I was tempted to record a video but quickly realised that this might provoke/instigate them further. So i didn’t. It’s frightening when you realize that no matter who you are, or where you are, law and order can collapse in seconds.”

She further shared that she is “disturbed” by the incident as the incident was a “mockery of governance and civic responsibility. We deserve the right to feel safe in our own city.”

She concluded the note with the caption, “Not the Digital Bharat they keep talking about. Because when casteism, religion, politics, corruption, bureaucracy, illiteracy and unemployment are running the show—this isn’t development. It’s decay. #MarathaQuotaProtest.”

However, she has deleted her post now.