Ola cabbie arrested for molesting Belgian tourist
BY MPost9 May 2016 12:32 AM GMT
MPost9 May 2016 12:32 AM GMT
An Ola cab driver was arrested on Sunday for allegedly molesting a 23-year-old Belgian woman tourist. The incident was reported late on Saturday night at South-East Delhi’s CR Park police station. The driver has been identified as Bal Raj Singh (23), who is a native of Rajasthan. He was arrested from the taxi stand and has been booked under the relevant sections of the India Penal Code. On Sunday the local court has been sent him to 14-days judicial custody. The driver and the owner of the cab have been blacklisted by the company.
The victim has been identified as language translator who was on her way to meet a friend in CR Park. She told the police that that at around 5.30 pm she booked a cab from Gurgaon DLF with the help of an app installed in her phone. When the cab picked her, she sat in the rear seat and mid-way through the journey the driver asked her to sit on the front seat to help guide him as his GPS was not working. “She came to the front seat and gave directions. Instead of following the right direction he started driving the other way. When she resisted, he kissed her and snatched her mobile phone. He locked the doors from inside and deleted all her contacts so that she could not call anyone. At around 7.30 pm, he dropped her at an isolated place in Govindpuri area and fled,” said a police official. Somehow she managed to inform her friend and at around 10 pm, the duo went to CR Park police station and filed the complaint.
The cops with the help of the registration number of the cab identified and detained the owner of the cab Vikram Singh, and he led them to the accused in Gurgaon. When Ola was informed, they issued a statement saying, “We will share all required information with the authorities to help resolve this. We have zero tolerance for such behaviour from drivers,” the cab company also terminated the duo with immediate effect. Such cases are not new as earlier in January too, a cab driver had allegedly molested a journalist who was travelling from Noida to Delhi. In December 2014, a 27-year-old woman was raped in an Uber taxi, which she had hired to return home from a party in Gurgaon.
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