Ola officers summoned in reference to fraud case thru app manipulation
November 20, 2020 3:20:16 am
Police mentioned out of the 3 drivers arrested within the case, considered one of them, a former driving force with the cab aggregator, gave old-fashioned Ola apps to cab drivers who used them to cheat folks. (Representational Symbol)
THE MUMBAI Police has summoned officers of cab aggregator Ola in reference to an alleged fraud that it busted previous within the month with the arrest of 3 Ola drivers for allegedly manipulating the app in a fashion that calculated extra distance.
In keeping with police, over 40 different cab drivers have been additionally concerned within the fraud. An officer from the Crime Department (Unit I) mentioned police had summoned Ola officers to sign up for the investigation a lot previous, however they’d now not seemed as but.
“We have been knowledgeable by way of Ola officers that because of the Covid lockdown, their places of work in Maharashtra have been close. They’ve now informed us that officers from Bengaluru will seem earlier than the Crime Department in an afternoon or two,” the officer mentioned.
Police mentioned out of the 3 drivers arrested within the case, considered one of them, a former driving force with the cab aggregator, gave old-fashioned Ola apps to cab drivers who used them to cheat folks. “Perhaps, he discovered a glitch within the device whilst using round or somebody else knowledgeable him about it,” the officer mentioned.
Throughout the process the interrogation of the previous driving force and two others arrested on November 1, police discovered names of 40 different cab drivers who got the apps. “We traced them, however information of the arrest of the trio leaked, so some deleted the apps, others destroyed their cellphones whilst some stopped using altogether. We have now recorded their statements and can most likely cause them to witnesses within the case,” the officer added.
The accused would park out of doors the airport and simplest take long-distance rides, and throughout the process the force would transfer the app off and on in a fashion that it added just about 20 km to the experience, thereby expanding the fare, police mentioned.
Remaining week, a classes court docket rejected the bail plea of the previous driving force on grounds that the trio’s arrest used to be simply the “tip of the iceberg”.
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