A 28-year-old cab driver, who allegedly pretended to be registered with a popular app-based taxi service, has been arrested for allegedly misbehaving with two passengers — a joint secretary rank officer at a Union ministry and her teenage daughter — and later deserting them near Nizamuddin area here, the police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place Tuesday evening when the officer and her 18-year-old daughter had gone to a Diwali fair in southeast Delhi and booked an app-based cab for their residence in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area, the police said.
During the journey, the passengers requested the driver not to drive too fast and use the GPS facility as he was taking all the wrong roads.
It later emerged that he didn’t have any GPS device, which led to an argument between the mother-daughter duo and the driver, the police added. During the argument, the driver, identified as Praveen, allegedly misbehaved with the two and when things went out of control, he forced them out of the cab near the Nizamuddin area around 9 pm and fled, said the police. The mother-daughter duo reported the matter to the police and provided details of the booked cab. The police tracked the driver with the information provided and brought him to the police station.
