Woman pilot molested in cab in city, driver detained

Mumbai: The driver of an aggregator cab has been detained for re-rerouting his vehicle while driving a woman pilot home, stopping and allowing in two men who went on to sexually harass the 28-year-old passenger on Thursday night.
A hunt is on for the two men, reports Mateen Hafeez.
The woman hired the cab in Fort to go home in an eastern suburb around 11pm when midway the two unidentified men got in. While one of them touched her inappropriately, the other threatened her as she screamed in fear. They got out and left when the driver slowed down before a police nakabandi. "We have detained the driver and a probe is on," said a police officer about the FIR filed on Saturday.
A woman pilot, who has complained of sexual harassment in an aggregator cab, told the police she came to CSMT station to meet her husband on Thursday evening. Her husband booked a cab at 10.45pm for her from the Fort area.
After some time, she got into the vehicle and started towards her residence. "After travelling for about 25 minutes, the driver suddenly changed the route, stopped the vehicle and made two unknown men get in.
One of them sat in the front seat, and the other sat next to me in the rear. Both were aged between 25 and 30 years," the complainant stated in the FIR.
She added the man sitting next to her grabbed her right hand and twisted it backwards. As she screamed in fear, the other man sitting in front of her threatened her to be quiet. Then the man moved his hand over her thigh. At that time, the driver was driving and did not react.
She stated there was a police nakabandi on the road and the driver slowed down.
At that time, both the men got out of the car and fled. She added since she did not travel much in Mumbai, she had no idea where she was. Also, due to raindrops on the glass of the cab, she could not see much outside. After that, the cab driver took her to her address.
She asked the driver who those men were and why he had let them into his car. The driver stayed silent, she said in the FIR. She added she was in a state of panic, paid the fare of Rs 530, and he left.
On Friday night, she and her husband went to the police station. The FIR was lodged around 1am Saturday against the driver and the men. Police booked the three under sections 75(1) (sexual harassment), 351(2) (criminal intimidation), and 3 (5) (when a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if done by him alone) of BNS.

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