When we take a normal cab to go somewhere, we often hear the answer “NO”. It is either due to the cab driver’s mood or due to the area. Many a times, we find the reasons stupid, but we just can’t help it.
However, we certainly don’t expect such kind of behavior from a reputed cab provider Ola. The company hires the best of drivers but sometimes, unfortunate incidents do happen.
Recently, a guy named Asad had a bad experience from Ola. Well, he booked a cab from BK Dutt colony for traveling to Jamia. Sadly, the driver dropped him in the middle because he didn’t want to go to “Muslim colony”.
Asad is a journalist by profession and he was deeply hurt by this behavior. He shared the entire experience on Twitter and even filed a complaint with Delhi Police. The driver had literally threatened him to get off midway.
Here’s his post;
@Olacabs your driver would have killed me for being a Muslim today. Where are your ethics ? @DelhiPolice . Screenshot of my complaint is here. pic.twitter.com/tXSGFvHcZA
— Asad Ashraf (@Asad_Ashraf88) June 17, 2018
The post read,
“This is absolutely ridiculous Ola. Your driver dropped me somewhere in between. Threatend me. Called his people come over the location.Made a hate speech saying that he would not go to Jamia Nagar as this Muslim area is not place for Ola to go. I raised an emergency alarm to Ola but after one call Ola didn’t bother to enquire if the matter was resolved and neither did it answer my multiple calls. All this despite assurance of reaching me out after the emergency call. The police showed no interest and neither did Ola consider it important to follow with the police. My life was under threat after the driver stopped at a deserted location.”
After seeing his tweet, Ola finally replied. Here’s what it said;
Specific to the shocking Incident that happened last night, we have off-roaded the driver. Ola, like India, believes in secularity & will never allow any sort of discrimination amongst its customers & driver partners. We stand by our customer & deeply apologise for the incident.
— Ola (@Olacabs) June 18, 2018
The tweet read, “Specific to the shocking Incident that happened last night, we have off-roaded the driver. Ola, like India, believes in secularity & will never allow any sort of discrimination amongst its customers & driver partners. We stand by our customer & deeply apologise for the incident.”
After Asad’s tweet started receiving immense anger, Ola said that it fired the employee.
Let’s see if that’s the truth. What do you think?