New Delhi: A driver, working for Ola cabs, has been arrested for allegedly harassing and misbehaving with a woman judge in a city court.
According to police, the driver, identified as Sandeep Kumar, was arrested from Gurgaon and booked on charges of outraging the modesty of the woman among others on the basis of a complaint by the additional sessions judge in Tis Hazari court.
Madhur Verma, deputy commissioner of police (north), said that the driver was arrested from Gurgaon after the judge’s complaint at the Roop Nagar police station.
“We had been asking the cab driver to join the probe but he was not appearing before the investigating officer. On Thursday, we conducted a raid and arrested him from Gurgaon,” Verma said.
The incident had taken place on May 28. The complainant told the police that she had hired the Ola cab to go shopping in a market in north Delhi.
She asked the driver to wait while she went to a shop. As the wait exceeded two minutes, the driver allegedly started verbally abusing her. He even went on to throw her bag on the road.
A case under IPC sections 354 A (making sexually coloured remarks), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman) and 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) was registered at Roop Nagar Police Station.
The company in a statement said that the said driver has been blocked from the platform with immediate effect until further investigation.
“We will take all the necessary actions and will extend our full support to the authorities in resolving the matter,” the statement said.
