Uttar Pradesh, Aug. 16 -- Rapido has allegedly suspended a 30-year-old cab driver working in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, for 99 years and 11 months for confronting Indian Railway officials using casteist slurs.

Ankit Kumar belongs to the Chamar (Dalit) community. In a video (click here), he said the four employees were constantly speaking ill of their senior officer, also a Dalit.

He questioned the officers and asked them to get out of his cab. "Aap kaise in shabdo ka istamaal kar sakthe hai? Unka naam lo, poori jaathi ko kyu bol rahein ho (How can you use casteist remarks? If you have a problem with a person, use their name; why are you defaming his community?)," he angrily asked.

In a subsequent video, Amit Kumar has claimed that followi...