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Ola driver locks fashion stylist in cab, sexually harasses her

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December 6, 2017

Bengaluru, Dec 6: A 23-year-old woman was allegedly harassed and molested by an Ola cab driver who activated the child-lock to trap her in his car in Bengaluru.

Frighteningly for the woman, her mobile phone battery had run out, leaving her unable to alert anyone or activate the SOS option in the app for the cab service.

The driver has been "off-roaded", the cab aggregator service has said.

The incident took place around 10.30 pm on Sunday, in a deserted spot on the Ring Road in south east Bengaluru. The woman, a fashion stylist, says the driver suddenly stopped.

"There was nobody on the road. I was looking out of the window when he suddenly stopped and started touching my legs. I warned him and tried to damage the car. He let me go then. He tried calling me later to warn me but then I blocked his number," the woman said.

According to the woman, the driver kept harassing her and held her captive until he was forced to unlock the car when she banged on the windows and screamed.

The woman says she ran for a few hundred meters until she could find an auto-rickshaw. The driver allegedly kept calling her and threatened her until she blocked his number.

She went to the police but decided not to file a First Information Report as the cab driver had been warned.

A spokesperson of Ola said: "We regret the unfortunate experience the customer had during their ride. We have zero tolerance to such incidents and the driver has been suspended from the platform as an immediate action upon receiving the complaint."

The cab company also said it had urged the woman to file a formal complaint, adding that it would give "full support" to the investigation against the driver.

The woman alleges that the cab hailing company never informed her about the action it took against the driver.

"I reported the incident to Ola on Sunday night itself but even on Monday, when the police asked, they had not taken any action. Even now they haven't told me what action has been taken. He was rated 4.9 on the app. What is the company doing to ensure women who use the service are safe?" she asked.

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laxmi shenoy
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Wednesday, 6 Dec 2017

shocking and shamfull act by ola driver, 

good that the action has be taken

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April 19,2020

New Delhi, Apr 19: The government on Sunday prohibited the sale of non-essential items through e-commerce platforms during the ongoing lockdown, four days after allowing such companies to sale mobile phones, refrigerators and ready-made garments.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued an order excluding the non-essential items from sale by the e-commerce companies from the consolidated revised guidelines, which listed the exemption given to the services and people from the purview of the lockdown.

The order said the following clause -- "E-commerce companies. Vehicles used by e-commerce operators will be allowed to ply with necessary permissions" -- is excluded from the guidelines.

The previous order had said such items were allowed for sale through e-commerce platforms from April 20.

However, the reason for reversing the order is not known immediately.

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May 24,2020

Mangaluru, May 24: A 42 –year-old man who was the secondary contact of P 1233 has been tested positive for COVID 19, in Dakshina Kannada on Sunday.

The man is being treated at the designated COVID-19 hospital in Mangaluru. With this, DK has registered a total of 66 positive cases with 34 active cases.

P 1233 was a 30-year-old man who had inter-state travel history from Maharashtra, said DK DC Sindhu B Rupesh.

The news case took the district's covid tally to 66 and 34 of them are active cases.

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February 2,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 2: A local court on Saturday remanded Aditya Rao,the suspect in the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) bomb case, to two weeks judicial custody.

Rao was produced before the Sixth Judicial First Class Magistrate Court after the 10-day police custody expired.

Rao has been in police custody since January 22 after he surrendered before the police in Bengaluru on January 21 and was later brought here.

He had allegedly planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at the airport on January 20 triggering panic and later made a hoax call to the airport terminal that a bomb had been planted in an IndiGo flight.

During the last ten days, police took the accused to several places in the city and Udupi where he had frequented in the recent past.

He was also taken to the room where he stayed while he was working at a hotel in the city.

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