Ola cab driver arrested for throwing slipper at lady passenger

Team Udayavani, Jul 14, 2018, 9:48 AM IST

Bnegaluru: Adding to the list of incidents of taxi drivers assaulting their lady passenger, another incidence has followed up where a Ola driver attempted to throw his shoe at the lady passenger. 

The episode occurred near SBM Circle along K G Road on July 10, when a student and her mother had booked a taxi to Malleshwaram. Without the notice of the application client, the taxi driver had begun the meter even before reaching the pickup spot. The passenger was befuddled when she got a message from Ola saying that waiting charges would be relevant, as the taxi had not yet picked them up from their location. Upon the driver’s arrival, the passenger confronted him, which is when he started manhandling her and even tried to throw his shoe at her. 

The driver was captured following a complaint lodged by the student with the Upparpet Police. 

The police likewise found that the accused Mahadeva, was not the owner of the vehicle but worked for a man named Vishal Parekh. Police later discovered from Mahadeva that the owner of the car had made him the driver and issued a notice to Ola with respect to the same.