Hyderabad: A cab driver, who was on his first day on the job, alleged on Sunday {that a} group of six males chased his automobile for about three kilometres, broken the automobile at Narsingi. The driving force, Syed Lateefuddin, who works for Uber, alleged that the boys fled with money and paperwork. He claimed that the boys requested him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ when the sequence of incidents started.
That is the second incident involving a cab driver in a month. On August 8, a gang beat up an Ola driver and the proprietor at Rajendranagar.
Talking to Deccan Chronicle, Lateefuddin mentioned that he accepted a journey at Alkapuri and was heading there utilizing a map. When he slowed down on a street close to Tolichowki, the gang stopped beside his automobile on two bikes at round 3.45 am. “There have been two males on a motorcycle and 4 on a scooter. They first hit my automobile with their fingers. I rolled down the window to ask them what the difficulty was. Upon noticing my accent, the boys, who have been drunk, requested me to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and began to drag my door open.”
“I pulled the door again and drove out of the place. They adopted me for about three kilometres till I reached an remoted place close to Alkapuri and stopped at a lifeless finish. I instantly left the automobile with my cellphone and began shouting for assist and hid within the close by bushes once I observed them approaching. They picked up large rocks mendacity round and broke all of the aspect home windows and left with money and my automobile’s paperwork upon seeing the locals approaching,” Lateefuddin claimed.
The police was duly knowledgeable. Narsingi station home officer V. Shiva Kumar mentioned, “We now have launched groups to probe the case and test all of the CCTV cameras alongside the route. We are going to take the boys accountable into custody by Monday morning,” he mentioned.
Requested concerning the driver’s allegation that the gang requested him to chant slogans, a senior police official mentioned that it might probably solely be established after investigation. “We suspect that an incident of street rage might need led to them asking the motive force to chant. It is going to be clarified as soon as we determine and arrest the boys,” he mentioned.
Dial 100 took 1 hour to achieve: Driver
Hyderabad: Uber cab driver Syed Lateefuddin claimed that the police took an hour to achieve him after he was tailed and attacked by a gang. Nonetheless, a police officer mentioned that the world had poor community protection and the police took time to determine the placement however reached the place in 12 minutes .
Lateefuddin mentioned the automobile was in his brother’s identify. “My pockets had about Rs 6,000, together with my earnings from my first day. I used to be hiding within the bushes once I first referred to as 100 for assist. They saved routing me to Narsingi police station as I used to be of their jurisdiction and saved repeating, ‘the groups are on their manner’. I assumed I’d get killed,” Lateefuddin mentioned. “I might need referred to as them about 50 occasions.”
After the ordeal, Lateefuddin mentioned, he requested Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) spokesperson Amjed Ullah Khan for assist. On Sunday, the MBT chief accompanied Lateefuddin to the Narsingi police station and referred to as senior officers who assured him {that a} probe would be launched to test the delay within the police arrival. The MBT chief mentioned the police took up investigation solely after he spoke with Cyberabad police commissioner Stephen Raveendra. “Groups from the ACP workplace and Particular Operations Groups (SOT) have been roped in to test cameras and determine the boys,” he mentioned.
Lateefuddin spent his Sunday travelling in police vans to test CCTV digital camera footage. “The police have gathered CCTV footage from Tolichowki to Narsingi and have been taking me round to determine the boys,” he mentioned.
