Another cab company is in the dock following sexual harassment issue raised by a woman passenger.
A TaxiForSure driver has been accused of masturbating while driving from south Delhi’s Saket to Haryana’s Faridabad district last week.
The woman revealed this on her Facebook and Twitter posts, but has not approached the police yet.
The woman claimed that she contacted Ola on July 2, but a TaxiForSure cab arrived. Ola had acquired TaxiForSure in February. “As I was roughly 25 minutes from my destination, the driver got impatient and started driving brashly. Moreover, he seemed extremely restless, anxious, and he kept mumbling something to himself,” the woman wrote.
The aggrieved passenger said she was about to make a phone call when she noticed that the driver was masturbating.
After reaching her destination, the woman confronted the driver, but he denied everything. When the woman called up Ola, they directed her to TaxiForSure, whose call centre staff told her that action would be taken within 24 hours. She later tweeted about her meeting with two representatives of Taxi For Sure who told her that action had been taken against the driver.
Taxi For Sure said the driver had been sacked and that the firm will support the woman’s efforts to pursue the matter with authorities.“Even though this driver had no track record of bad/rude behaviour thus far, we have terminated him immediately,” the firm said.
(Published 07 July 2015, 19:54 IST)