Mumbai woman, family shocked as cab driver indulges in flashing

Tribune Web Desk 
Chandigarh, June 28 

A woman and her family were shocked as the driver of the cab they hired in Dadar, a Mumbai suburb, on Thursday flashed at them.

The woman shared the incident on Instagram from the user name ‘debaleena_buzz’. 

She says that as soon as she, her sister and their mother boarded the taxi, the driver “opens his zip” and “starts objectifying”. 

She says “he was stimulating his genitals”; and every time he took a halt on the traffic lights, the cab driver made her feel uncomfortable.  

She says that being a Mumbai girl, she has always felt safe in the city and “now worries what women coming from other city could have gone through”.

According to the post, an FIR has been lodged against the cab driver, but no arrests have been made.  

The post read: “SHAME!!!! It took me hours to think if I should share this or not, but I am sharing it now. (Before you judge me based on what I was wearing, I was wearing normal jeans and top). We were on our way from Siddhivinayak temple. We took this local taxi (worst decision ever) taking my mom & sister to Nariman Point on my way from Dadar.  This driver as soon as I got into this local taxi, opens his zip, was staring at me objectifying & was stimulating his genitals (I wish I could record that). Every time he took halt on signals, making me feel so uncomfortable, it was morning 9.30 am.” 

“Being in Mumbai I always felt safe and have never come across any such situation before. It’s called safe city. But if people like this can make someone like me who is local resident of this city go through this, I wonder what women coming from other city could have gone through, it’s not the city to be blamed but such people. Yes I got down abruptly in middle and no he wasn’t letting us get down until I forced voice, I said this where I could see Mumbai police around, later he started saying sorry, stating he was poor but excuse me. Being poor doesn’t give you right to sexually harass someone. What if it would have been late evening, me alone in this same situation, I always heard about all this until today I experienced this shit.”

“Update: FIR is filed and I didn’t share this to feel victimised but to make all the women out there feel powerful and raise their voice when & where needed. Also till he is arrested I would suggest you guys not to board this taxi MH01 BT7115.”