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Uber driver held in Kolkata for molesting passenger

| | Jul 06, 2016, at 10:38 pm
Kolkata, Jul 6 (IBNS): Police on Tuesday arrested an Uber cab driver in Kolkata for allegedly misbehaving and molesting a female passenger, reports said.

According to reports, one 27-year-old woman boarded an Uber cab (White Swift Dzire- WB 19H 2052) on Monday night from Beliaghata S. N. Bose Road area. The woman picked her friend up from Salt Lake GD Block and dropped her at Beliaghata.

Thereafter the woman asked the driver to drop at Salt Lake EC Block. She claimed that the Uber driver misbehaved with her and also molested her while dropping her in Salt Lake.

The passenger lodged an complaint against the Uber driver at Bidhannagar North Police Station. Police on Tuesday arrested the accused Uber driver, Santu Pramanik, from EM Bypass area.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

 

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