Uber. ReutersThiruvananthapuram: Cab aggregator Uber Thursday said the company has removed from service the driver, who had misbehaved with a woman IT professional at Technopark here.
"What has been described is deeply upsetting. The behavior of this nature has no place on the Uber app," the company said in a statement.
"We internally investigated the matter and the driver partner was immediately barred from accessing the app," Uber spokesperson said in the statement.
Uber driver misbehaves with woman techie in Thiruvananthapuram, arrested
Based on a complaint from 'Prathidhwani,' a socio- cultural outfit of the Technopark IT employees, local police had taken into custody the 32-year-old Uber taxi driver for misbehaving with the woman employee of the IT hub.
The incident happened at Aakkulam, a suburb near here, while the woman passenger was returning home from her workplace at Kazakkuttam on June 13 night.
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