Days, after a teen was overcharged by an auto-rickshaw driver, a non-resident Indian (NRI) who landed on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport in Mumbai, was compelled to pay Rs 2,800 for a 10-minute drive to town’s Vile Parle space by a taxi driver.
An officer from the Sahar Police Station mentioned that the incident befell on December 15, when D Vijay reached the Mumbai airport from Australia round midnight. Vijay, a Nagpur native who lives in Australia, instructed the police that as quickly as he got here out of the airport, the cab driver Vinod Goswami, approached him.
Goswami, who was later arrested by the police, satisfied Vijay by exhibiting him a faux app. Though Vijay handed the pre-paid cab counter on the airport he agreed to go along with Goswami. Whereas Vijay made the cost, he suspected one thing amiss and checked with the lodge the place he stayed. The lodge employees instructed him that they cost Rs 700 for his or her pick-up service. Realising he had been duped, he despatched an e-mail to the Sahar police together with the cell variety of the cab driver.
Goswami instructed him to contact him the following time he got here to town and gave him his quantity. Primarily based on the cell quantity, the police tracked down Goswami inside 12 hours and seized his car.
An officer mentioned they’ve deployed plainclothes police personnel on the airport and have acted towards 9 cab drivers on the airport in two days for overcharging passengers.
Earlier this month, the Mumbai police arrested an auto-rickshaw driver for allegedly overcharging a 19-year-old from Sangli who had employed his car at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport after he returned from the USA.
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