Uber horror: Delhi woman faces ‘rape threat’ during midnight trip; The driver says, ‘Do you think your mother can do this?’

A woman’s chilling encounter with an Uber driver has once again brought to the fore the issue of women’s safety, especially in taxis, in India. In a Reddit post, a 24-year-old woman shared horrific details about receiving a rape threat from a driver while taking an Uber taxi alone at night in Delhi.

Unfortunately, he was not the only one who faced such a situation; The comments section was flooded with other women sharing similar experiences.

In the post, the woman shared that she often takes a taxi via Uber to travel. delhi at night as he lives on the outskirts of the national capital and the metro is a time-consuming alternative.

But at 10:30pm on Friday, while returning from dinner in an Uber taxi, he said he noticed this: taxi driver He was watching her from the rearview mirror.

The woman said the taxi driver asked her what she was doing out so late at night. “You know, if you were a man, I would never hold you,” he said.

Continuing the conversation, the driver said that women should not go to work alone or go out so late, “because if they get raped later, they will be blamed.”

The Reddit user said that for his safety, he shared his driving location with his mother, who could follow him.

But what the driver said shocked him! “Do you think that if I do something to you in five minutes, your mother can come and help you?” he said.

Fortunately, the woman managed to reach home safely and reported the incident to Uber’s customer service.

In December 2014, a 27-year-old woman was raped by a woman. Uber driver He was returning from having dinner with his friends in Gurugram around 9 pm in Delhi. The incident also led to a ban on taxi aggregators (both Ola and Uber) in the national capital.