The Kolkata actress, Swastika Dutta, extracted from Uber Cab, threatened; Driver stopped

A Bengali television actor claimed that she had been "thrown from a taxi" and threatened by her Uber driver in Kolkata on Wednesday. she was going for a shoot. The driver has been stopped. Swastika Dutta, a popular actor in the Bengali series, recounted his ordeal in a Facebook post and shared a photo of the driver.

Ms. Dutta announced that she had booked the taxi home Wednesday morning to go to a studio in the south. Kania Rania for a shoot. Sharing a screenshot of her booking, she said the driver had canceled his mid-trip trip.

"This guy, named Jamshed, after picking me up at my position in the middle of the road, he canceled the trip and asked me Down the car," Swastika Dutta wrote on Facebook and shared a photo of the driver, his phone number and the taxi registration plate.

The actress said that she refused to get off the taxi, the driver then turned the car. , took her to "her locality" and mistreated her. "He got out of the car, opened the door and literally took me out … when I lost my cool and started asking for help, he got me out of it." threatened and called other boys, "she wrote.

The driver allegedly told Ms. Dutta in Bengali, "Do what you want, see what you can do."

"As I was falling behind my unit and was waiting for my unit, I rushed out of the scene of the incident, my father and all the necessary legal action, I will pursue "Ms. Dutta said.

The whole incident took place in half an hour, between 8:15 am and 8:45 am Swastika Dutta stated that the meeting had taken place in front of a restaurant located near the busy deviation of EM in Kolkata.

Responding to tweets, police in Kolkata announced that she was reacting.

@Iamswastika on the basis of your complaint. action necessary, rest badured that the culprit will not be spared.

– Kolkata Police (@KolkataPolice) July 10, 2019

Uber said that he had removed the driver's access to the application. "What has been described is extremely worrying: it is a clear violation of the safety standards set by our community directives.We have removed driver access to the application. We are ready to support the law enforcement authorities in their investigations, "Uber said to a statement.

Last month, Ushoshi Sengupta, a former Miss India, was pursued and harbaded twice by a gang of bikers as she was returning home from work in a Uber taxi. She told the episode in a Facebook post and shared a video that she recorded on her cell phone.

(With the contributions of the ANI)

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