I angrily asked him why he wasn’t using his navigator, he stopped his auto in the middle of the road, stopped the trip and told me to get out.
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While the license of Uber was cancelled temporarily, they worked on introducing safety measures and tighten driver checks only to be permitted by a court to operate again in Delhi. When she was about to leave, her friend said in her FB post, “she asked us if Uber was safe and all of us jumped to assure her that she was in Bombay and she had nothing to worry about”. The driver Shehbaaz allegedly tried tp molest her friend while she was on her way to Versova from Pali Hill area.
According to a friend of the victim, who wrote about the incident on Facebook, the driver was initially friendly, then tried to get her to sit with him in the front seat. Having refused to do that, the driver made a silly excuse of cleaning the back screen citing low visibility. She was very uncomfortable but allowed him to stop to clean the screen.
He apparently stopped the vehicle mid-way with the pretense of cleaning the back window and then came around to the backseat.
Cab services like Uber and Ola have proven to be godsends for urban Indians – especially those who need to cover great distances to get home at night after the last bus, train or metro departs. And as people of this city that has always been progressive when it comes to women, where I feel safe to drive home at 3am, we can not keep quiet. When she refused, he made an excuse about needing to clean the rear glass of the auto, stopped the vehicle, moved to back seat to clean the glass from the inside, and put his hand on her thigh “and tried to feel her up”.
But what angers me is that this has happened in Bombay! She couldn’t believe this had happened in Mumbai, a relatively safe metro.
Viola detailed the action in her comment that read, “Hi Guys!”
In an email response to the incidents, Uber said: “The driver involved in case of the foreign national was suspended immediately after we got to know about this incident”.
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Uber also issued a statement stating that the driver has been suspended and all details related to the trip and the driver were shared with the relevant authorities for official investigation.
