Bengaluru Cab Driver Tells Woman To Get Out Or, ¡®I¡¯ll Tear Your Clothes¡¯ During Cab Ride

In yet another horrific incident, a woman was harassed by a cab driver in Bengaluru who threatened her to get out of the cab or he will tear her clothes.

Aparna Balachander, a resident of Bengaluru in Karnataka, took to Twitter to share the frightening incident. She tweeted the traumatising incident and details of her trip. ¡°Hi guys, I need you all to take a minute and read my traumatic experience with the cab driver while taking an Uber cab tonight! Help me spread more caution and awareness among women so that they don't go through what I did!"

She wrote, ¡°Today, I had the most traumatising experience of my life. I got into an Uber cab after dinner with my colleagues. The cab driver was telling his friend on phone about customers being very bad. Suddenly, he turned to me and told me that as an educated woman I should leave work before 7 pm and not go out drinking with colleagues. (sic)"

Hi guys, I need you all to take a minute and read my traumatic experience with the cab driver while taking a @Uber cab tonight! Help me spread more caution and awareness among women so that they don't go through what I did! @UberINSupport pic.twitter.com/DNm5o1sa7S

¡ª Aparna Balachander (@baparna_93) August 3, 2019

In her post, she stated her response to the driver: ¡°I told him I didn't drink and asked him to mind his own business. He went on to call me a slut and also to say things like I can't even be his keep who cleans his shoes. At this point, he started slowing down the cab and I got extremely scared. I pressed the 'safety' button on Uber. Instead of calling me, they called the cab driver and he started telling the customer care person that 'I am extremely drunk.'"

"At this point, I had no choice but to start screaming, asking the customer care to listen to me. The woman on the call spoke to me and I cried begging her to help me. She told me to get out of the cab and that she will book me another one immediately. Meanwhile, this cab driver started threatening me with things like 'I will tear your clothes if you don't leave the cab now.'"

"As I got down at 11.15pm in the night on a not-so-busy road, I was waiting for a call from the customer care and also for my backup cab. I was terrified that the cab driver would come back to hit me. After waiting for 15 minutes and desperately writing messages to the Uber Customer Care, I received no support and I had to call my friends to help me", she wrote.

"All Uber did was refund my money which wasn't what I was concerned about at that point. If I as a customer press the safety button, it's ridiculous that the call goes to the driver. I am beyond terrified with my this Uber experience. I am raising this issue not only because I am terrified by my experience but also because the 'Safety' system of Uber is extremely messed up. How can the call go to the driver and not the customer who raised a safety concern?" wrote Aparna.

Uber said that they tried contacting Aparna but she said that she did not receive any call.

In another tweet, she shared the images of her chat with Uber support, "The entire day I haven't received a single call despite following up with you about my traumatic experience. Why do I have to keep following up for something so serious? #UnsafeUber #NotSoUber #Uber"

Women's safety in cabs has been an issue. In another frightening incident, a JNU student was allegedly raped by the cab driver in Delhi.