Uber Driver
Delhi: 2 men attempt to rob female Uber driver, hit her with beer bottle
New Delhi/IBNS: A female Uber cab driver was badly injured after two men threw stones at her car and tried to rob her near the inter-state bus terminus in Delhi's Kashmere Gate on Monday night, media reported.
The victim has been identified as Priyanka, a resident of Samaypur Badli in Delhi, India Today reported.
She told India Today that two men pelted stones at her vehicle when she was reaching a customer’s location.
She was driving amid dense fog and the incident happened when she was just 100 m away from the customer’s residence.
Two men came in front of the car and broke the window of the vehicle with a stone, she told the news organisation.
Priyanka said that the stone hit her head and broken shards of glass pierced her body.
When she came out of the car to check what had happened, the two men attacked her and tried to rob her of whatever money she was having.
One of the assailants grabbed her hand while the other snatched her mobile phone.
"I mustered courage and snatched my mobile phone back," she was quoted as saying in the report.
The two men also tried to take her car keys and run away in the car.
When she started shouting, they hit them with a beer bottle, injuring her neck and chest.
Priyanka told India Today that she pressed the panic button available on Uber for a long time but did not get any response.
Bleeding profusely, she also tried to stop the vehicles passing by but no one came to help her.
Police arrived half an hour later, and rushed her to a hospital in a PRC van, she said.
According to Kashmere Gate police, they received a call around 2 am on January 10 and were informed about the attempted robbery, according to the report.
When police reached the spot, they found the Uber driver injured and bleeding.
The report said Kashmere Gate police took suo-moto cognizance of the case and registered an FIR under Section 393 (attempt to commit robbery) of the IPC. Further investigation is underway.
Uber hasn’t given a statement on the incident, so far, the report said.
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