Last Update: April 26, 2023, 10:10 AM IST
He was forced to jump off the bike as soon as the driver did not stop touching him (Source: Rapido/File)
Took his phone on the pretext of checking the OTP (one-time password) to start the ride, but changed the drop location from Indiranagar to Doddaballapura
A 30-year-old woman from Bengaluru has alleged sexual harassment by a Rapido bike rider, which led her to jump off the moving vehicle. According to the woman, the incident took place in Yelahanka and the driver, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, groped her inappropriately, touched her and sexually assaulted her.
He was forced to jump off the bike when the driver did not stop touching him, he added. The incident took place on April 21 and a complaint has been registered at Yelahanka Newtown Police Station. The accused has been arrested by the police.
Driver snatched phone on the pretext of checking OTP
according to a Deccan Herald It is being told that the driver met the woman at around 11.10 pm on the night of the incident. The news report further states that he took her phone on the pretext of checking the OTP (one-time password) to initiate the ride, but changed the drop location from Indiranagar to Doddaballapura. The driver has been identified as 27-year-old Deepak Rao, a resident of Tindlu.
The woman is an architect working in the city and according to her, she suspected that the driver was taking her to the wrong place, and asked him about it. The woman and her friend said that the bike driver was driving at a speed of 60 kmph DH’s The news report further stated.
Seeing the driver drunk, the woman also snatched his phone, but when he accelerated the bike even more, she had to jump near BMS Institute of. technology & Management (BMSIT).
She also called her friend in Indiranagar and even her jump was captured in CCTV cameras.
A bike registered on Rapido is different from a used bike
Some more strange information came to light about this incident. The bike driver had registered a Honda Activa with the Rapido application but had come to pick up the woman on a Bajaj Pulsar.
The woman’s friend alleged that the police refused to help her saying it was a “girlfriend-boyfriend problem”. She said she went to the JB Nagar police station to lodge a complaint, but told the police that her friend’s phone was untraceable, but the police declined her request to trace the woman’s location.
However, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) Lakshmi Prasad said, “The accused has been arrested.”
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