Air hostess who took taxi bike allegedly molested by rider in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri
The incident took place around 11.45 pm on August 7. Around 11 pm, the woman booked a bike ride through inDrive to her home in Dwarka from Laxmi Nagar, where she had come to meet a friend, the police said.
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The accused, identified as 35-year-old Jaiveer, was nabbed from Gurgaon within 12 hours of the incident. According to the police, he hailed from Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh and had been working with taxi bike service inDrive in Delhi for the past one year.
A 25-YEAR-OLD woman, who works as an air hostess, was allegedly molested by a rider of an app-based bike ride aggregator service in Chanakyapuri area of New Delhi last week, police said on Tuesday.
The accused, identified as 35-year-old Jaiveer, was nabbed from Gurgaon within 12 hours of the incident. According to the police, he hailed from Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh and had been working with taxi bike service inDrive in Delhi for the past one year.
The incident took place around 11.45 pm on August 7. Around 11 pm, the woman booked a bike ride through inDrive to her home in Dwarka from Laxmi Nagar, where she had come to meet a friend, the police said.
āAccording to the woman, the bike rider reached her pickup spot within 15 minutes of booking the ride. When she reached the Simon Bolivar Marg near Buddha Jayanti Park around 11.45 pm, the bike rider tried to change the route even while looking at the map on his phone,Ā which the woman protested against,ā a police officer said. āSoon, it started raining heavily and the rider asked the woman to get down and take shelter with him under a tree.ā
The woman alleged that since the area was secluded, Jaiveer tried to molest her and started pulling her towards him. āThe ordeal went on for a few minutes after which the woman raised an alarm,ā the officer said. āA man driving a Scorpio noticed her and pulled up near the spot. He began honking the car horn. Following this, the rider fled in his bike. He was arrested in Gurgaon within 12 hours.ā
The car driver offered to help the woman and dropped her at a nearby Metro station at her request. The woman then went to her friendās house in Vasant Kunj. After she narrated the incident, the friendās mother called up the PCR.
DCP (New Delhi) Devesh Mahla said a case has been lodged under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Section 74 (assaulting or using criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and Section 76 (assaulting or using criminal force to any woman or abetting such act with the intention of disrobing) at Chanakyapuri Police Station.
After receiving a police intimation, inDrive suspended the rider’s registration. It stated that it āmaintains a strict zero-tolerance policy towards any act and/or omission which is offensive and /or unlawful by any user and strongly condemns such behaviourā.
āAt inDrive, our user safety and satisfaction, specifically women safety and experience, is always a top-most priority and we deeply regret and feel sorry for this incident experienced by our user,ā a spokesperson said.
A spokesperson added that the app has a shield icon on the main screen for āquickly contacting support, calling the police or an ambulanceā.
āIn the app, everyone can save the phone number of a trusted person for quick contact in an emergency. Trusted numbers can be added at any time, even during the ride,ā the spokesperson said.
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