Angry Mumbai cab driver 'abducts' woman, daughter for 40 minutes

In a bizarre incident, an angry cab driver in Mumbai took a woman and her daughter hostage for about 40 minutes. He was intercepted in Mahim, near St Michael’s Church, after the woman called the police.

Mumbai Mirror reported that Pooja Sakpal (35) and her daughter were finally rescued after she telephoned 103, a help line for women and children in distress. The traffic police intercepted the cab near St Michael’s church, Mahim, and arrested driver Adarsh Kumar Trivedi (35).

Trivedi began harassing Sakpal and her daughter the moment they got into the cab from Phoenix Mills in Lower Parel and refused to take them to their destination.

“The driver kept mumbling and started abusing Sakpal when she said that he could not refuse to ply them. However, when I and my daughter got inside the vehicle, the abuses continued and the driver had started speeding and driving rashly. He did not stop the vehicle when I asked and continued to drive rashly,” a DNA report  quoted from Sakpal’s complaint.

The driver kept using sexually explicit language and got more furious when Sakpal called the police.

Mumbai Mirror quoted Sakpal as saying, “When it seemed like things were getting out of hand I told him to stop. However, he just refused to stop driving, and took us into lanes that were narrow, deserted and poorly lit. My daughter and I screamed out of the window for help when it we realised we were being abducted. Many thoughts flashed through my mind-should I jump, should I push my daughter out?”

The police came to Sakpal’s rescue when she had lost all hope. She said that police called her several times to find out where she was.

DNA reported Tiwari, who had been arrested for refusing to ply under the Motor Vehicles Act and Section 110 of the Mumbai Police Act, told the police that he had only refused to ply and later had by mistake taken a wrong turn from the junction which probably scared Sakpal.