In an evidently despicable instance of police resorting to violent measures to enforce lockdown, a video of a man being manhandled by the cops outside a suburban supermarket went viral on social media over the weekend. When netizens mistakenly assumed that the man in question was Sudhir Mishra, the filmmaker denied the claim with a sharp reply: "Every tall white-haired guy is not me."

After a bit of digging, mid-day discovered that the man at the centre of the incident is Versova resident Manmohan Gill. "Yaar, utna damm nahi tha unke dande mein [the blows weren't that hard]," he chuckled when we reached out to him. Revealing that he had joined the queue outside Versova D-Mart, he shared, "When I realised I had joined the queue midway, I headed towards the end of the line. There were two male and two female cops. I happened to touch their bike, and they looked at me strangely. So, I took off my mask and asked them where I could find one of the products that was on my [groceries] list. That was the trigger, and they came at me, shouting, 'Hum 12 din se duty kar rahe hai yahan'. It's not easy being out there, but I had done nothing to deserve it."