Cabbie booked for assaulting Tamil woman

Team Udayavani, Nov 6, 2019, 4:03 PM IST

Bengaluru: A case has been registered against a cab driver for assaulting a woman for not knowing Kannada.

In the complaint filed by Sajini Ramesh, a resident of Domlur and native of Tamil Nadu, she mentioned that the incident took place while she was on her way to Koramangala from her house, along with a female friend.

She had started from Indiranagar, a cab driver, whose vehicle bore the registration number KA-11-B-3934, allegedly followed her. When she was near FBB Mall on 100-feet road in Koramangala, she halted, hoping that the cab would pass but the cab driver got from his car and threw a stone at her car. when she questioned him in Tamil he slapped me, Sajini stated in her complaint.

“I shouted at him and he threw a stone at me. He told me that I should not be staying in Bengaluru as I didn’t know Kannada. The cab driver snatched my phone as I was trying to record the incident. When my friend called the PCR escaped,” Sajini wrote in her complaint.