‘Chull’ singer caught ‘drunk driving’, denies charge
Popular Haryanavi rapper Fazilpuria, who shot to fame with the ‘chull’ song in the film Kapoor and Sons, allegedly created a ruckus on MG Road on Saturday night, after Gurgaon traffic police caught him for “drunk driving”.
The singer, whose real name is Rahul Yadav, however, denied the charge.
Fazilpuria, who resides in Gurgaon, was driving a white Mercedes Benz with a temporary licence Haryana number, and the car was seized, police said.
Sector 29 police station SHO, inspector Vikas Kaushik said Yadav was stopped during routine checking at around 1.30 am. The singer started arguing that he wasn’t drunk.
The police conducted the breath-analyser test thrice, on the insistence of the rapper.
“It was evident that he had enough of drink. All the three times, it confirmed he was drunk. When the police asked for his licence, he showed them a year-old ‘challan’,” the SHO said.
Kaushik said that even the “year-old challan had not been paid”. When asked about it, Fazilpuria started “arguing loudly”.
The police then seized his car and issued him another challan. The singer left after a while.
Fazilpuria, on the other hand, said that he, along with two others, had gone to Cyber Hub for dinner. While returning, “I was chewing pan when the traffic police stopped our car,” he said.
He said that as soon as he stopped the car, a constable “aggressively snatched the car keys and was talking very arrogantly”.
“After conducting the breathanalyser test, the cops said that it had tested positive. But I knew I was not drunk, so I first gargled with water and asked them to perform the test again,” Fazilpuria said.
The cops then got very angry and said that they had other work to do, impounded the car and issued him a challan, he said.
According to the rapper, there were two other friends in his car while there was another car with staff and bouncers behind.
“I even asked them to conduct a medical test. I went to nearby hospitals for the same, but the doctors refused to do the test without being asked by the police,” he rued.
Meanwhile, a video surfaced online which allegedly showed the police conducting the breathanalyser test thrice on the insistence of the rapper. But Fazilpuria persisted on taking the test again and allegedly starting arguing with the the police.
“I have put perfume and perfume has alcohol. Even coffee has alcohol. Why can’t you do the test again,” the video shows Fazilpuria telling the police.
It also shows his friend giving his licence to the police, when it was actually the singer who was driving the car.