An Ola cab driver has been detained by Delhi Police for allegedly molesting a 23-year-old Belgian woman on Saturday evening.
Following the incident, the woman filed a complaint against the driver at CR Park police station, South Delhi.
“We have detained the driver, Raj Singh, a resident of Alwar in Rajastan after the complaint, ” deputy commissioner of Police, Mandeep Singh Randhawa told IANS.
As maintained by the police, the driver took a wrong route on the way from CR Park to Gurgaon. “The woman was monitoring her way on her phone’s GPS. She asked the driver to take the right route but the driver said he was taking a short cut, ” HT quoted a senior police officer.
The alarmed woman reportedly called her friend who spoke to the driver and the driver assured the woman’s friend to drop her safely.
Allegedly, five minutes later the driver asked her to sit in the front seat because his GPS wasn’t working. “He had switched off the GPS. When the woman sat in the front, the driver snatched her phone, pinned her down and kissed her. She alleged that the driver deleted the call records. She then raised an alarm, ” the officer added.
Following this, he threatened her of dreadful consequences and that he would kill her if she went to the police, dropping her off at Govindpuri. The woman immediately contacted her friend to report the incident to him. “The woman reached her friend’s home and then informed the police. Our team went to the house and recorded her statement. A statement will also be recorded before the magistrate and a case will be registered, ” a police officer said.
The cab aggregator issued a statement, saying that the driver has been terminated with "immediate effect." And that they have "a zero tolerance for such behaviour." They are working closely with the authorities to resolve the issue.