
A 26-year-old woman was allegedly molested in Bengaluru by an Ola driver who forced her to strip, news reports said Tuesday.
The news reports said the Ola driver got the woman to strip by threatening to call his friends and have her gang-raped if she did not do his bidding. The driver then allegedly took photos of the woman.
The incident took place in the early hours of June 1 while the woman, a city-based architect, was on her way to the airport to catch a flight to Mumbai.
The news reports said the woman had caught the Ola cab from her home in JB Nagar.
The driver howeverstopped the car at a deserted spot near the airport,locked her in, and assaulted her.
He allegedly snatched her phone, and threatened to call his friends and have her gang-raped if she alerted anybody.
To get away from him, the reports said the woman assured him she would not tell anyone.
The driver then dropped her to the airport, from where she complained to the police.
The reports said the driver was arrested within 3 hours.
Ola meanwhile released a statement saying they had "zero tolerance for such incidents" and had "blacklisted" the driver.