A police complaint was lodged against a Hyderabad resident after he refused to accept an order of food from a Muslim delivery person. The customer, who is a resident of the Aliabad North area, ordered a portion of Chicken 65 from the Grand Bawarchi restaurant at Falaknuma on Swiggy and made an online payment. However, while placing his order, he wrote in the special instructions that the delivery service should provide a delivery person who is Hindu. He had written: “Very less spicy. And, please select Hindu delivery person. All ratings will be based on this”. However, the app which automatically assigns delivery persons did not consider the request. When the delivery person contacted the customer, he refused to accept the order for not adhering to his instructions. The delivery person brought the issue to the notice of the Muslim group Majlis Bacao Tehreek's president Amjed Ullah Khan, who tweeted about it, and the tweet along with an alleged screenshot of the man's instructions went viral on social media. This act of hatredness has to be condemned by one & all to maintain Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb, He doesn't know that Grand Bawarchi where order placed belonged to a Muslim, Hope @SwiggyCares will lodge a complaint with @shoshalibanda against the said Ajay Kumar. /2 @hydcitypolice — Amjed Ullah Khan MBT (@amjedmbt) October 23, 2019 Irony of incident is that when muslim delivery boy who was abused approached @shoshalibanda they declined to help and questioned swiggy as why they had sent a muslim delivery boy when the customer had requested for a hindu delivery boy. /3 — Amjed Ullah Khan MBT (@amjedmbt) October 23, 2019 Mudassir Suleman the Swiggy delivery boy who was assaulted for being a Muslim by a Hindu Customer was assured by @shoshalibanda of necessary action against the hate monger Ajay Kumar. /4 @hydcitypolice pic.twitter.com/YIeUHuamxX — Amjed Ullah Khan MBT (@amjedmbt) October 23, 2019 An officer from the Shalibanda police station said they had received a complaint from an executive of Swiggy, Mudassir Suleman, which stated that the customer did not accept the ordered food merely because the delivery person was a Muslim. "We are in the process of filing a case against the customer and we will be filing an FIR soon," the police inspector P Srinivas told news agency PTI. The incident left many fuming and some said the man's actions were the 'height of hypocrisy' given he had ordered food from a restaurant owned by a Muslim, where the cook could also be from the community. While many slammed the customer, some suggested that it might be better if the delivery persons are identified only with their phone numbers, instead of their names, which could reveal their religion. The food delivery app company, in a statement, said "We embrace diversity and respect different points of view. Every order is automatically assigned to delivery executives based on their location and availability, among others, and not based on individual preferences. As an organisation, we do not discriminate between our partners and customers on any grounds." A similar incident was reported in July, when a man in Madhya Pradesh tagged Zomato in a tweet saying he had cancelled his order as “they allocated a non Hindu rider” for his delivery. Zomato responded saying that 'food has no religion and the firm's CEO Deepinder Goyal's tweet was praised after he said that his company wasn’t sorry to lose any business that comes in the way of its values.
