Gurugram Police have arrested an Uber driver for allegedly misbehaving with a woman software engineer and threatening her after she refused to pay more than the fare displayed on the app, officials said on Wednesday.
Preliminary investigation revealed that he had created his Uber account using the name Jamil Jahid Khan, they added. When she refused to pay the additional amount, he allegedly misbehaved with her and threatened to kill her. An FIR was registered on the basis of her post, and technical assistance was used to identify the accused and gather information about him.
Teams from Palam Vihar police station and the Crime Branch, Sector 39, jointly arrested the accused, they said. The accused has been identified as Yasir, 26, a resident of Ghasera village in Nuh district, police said. The incident occurred around 4.45 am after she arrived at Delhi airport and booked an Uber cab to her home in Gurugram, according to her post. The fare displayed on the app was around Rs 625 before the ride began.
The arrest was made within hours of the registration of an FIR based on the woman’s social media post, police said. A team monitoring social media came across a post shared by the woman on X, in which she alleged that the driver had demanded an amount higher than the fare displayed on the app, according to police. Police said they attempted to contact the woman through X and took suo motu cognisance of the matter.
