BENGALURU: A woman doctor, who boarded an Ola cab at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) on Friday night, realised shortly that he was an impersonator and reached out to the emergency helpline 112 later. The police arrived promptly and rescued her. She filed a detailed police complaint at the airport police station and the driver Basavaraj has been arrested.
In a post on X on November 9, she said, “Almost got trafficked/raped/looted/assaulted by a random cabdriver who was let in by @Blrairport in the Ola pick-up station and impersonated to be one at Terminal 1 of Bengaluru airport at 10.30 pm. Had I not called 112, I’d not be here typing this.
” The post went viral with 2.5 million views and generated much public engagement. In her police complaint filed a day earlier, the doctor narrated that she arrived at KIA’s T1 from Delhi and made an Ola booking on her phone.
Shortly, driver Basavaraj arrived in a sedan, while she had booked a mini cab. When she asked him about the car model, he said it was okay and he would drop her. He then asked her to reach pick up point No.
1 of the Ola pick-up station. “As soon as I got in the car, he didn’t ask for my Ola OTP number. I kept telling him the OTP to which he did not respond.
After travelling 700 metres, he asked me to enter the location on his phone which I did,” her complaint said. While the fare on the app showed Rs 1,300, the driver said he needed Rs 1,500 as he was taking her in a “luxurious sedan”. The d.
