MUMBAI: In yet another case in a week, a woman commuter travelling by an
Uber cab in the city took to social media to narrate her woes.
However, her complaint was not against the driver but against a woman co-passenger. She alleged in her post that her co-passenger had called her a "
chinky". The complainant,
Ushnota Paul, was travelling to Lower Parel on Monday morning in
Uber Pool (shared) cab when the incident happened. She alleged that her co-passenger abused her, and allegedly grabbed her hair, pulled out clumps of hair and scratched her face and hands. Paul, a journalist, approached the police to lodge a complaint, but the Uber team was not willing to provide details of her co-passenger.
Paul said that the co-passenger was initially yelling at the driver partner saying she was paying the most and still getting dropped last. "When I tried to intervene, she abused me. Reasoning with her was futile. She called me all sorts of names. I tried to click her picture and she immediately snatched my phone and threatened to break it," she added.
A case has been registered under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) against unknown persons at N M Joshi Marg police station.
TOI was unable to get details of Paul's co-passenger. An Uber spokesperson said: "We have reached out to law-enforcement agencies to offer information that could be helpful." (
Inputs from Mateen Hafeez)
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