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Kolkata police on Saturday arrested a bike rider using an app for allegedly threatening and sending pornographic videos to a doctor for canceling a ride, news agency PTI reported.

A doctor, works in a private medical institution in the village of Kolkatain Jadavpur district, booked a ride around 8:00 PM from the hospital. She reportedly canceled the ride because the driver was allegedly late.

After canceling the ride, the doctor reportedly received at least 17 calls from the bike rider threatening “dire consequences.” In addition to the threats, the driver allegedly sent sexually explicit content to the doctor via WhatsApp, police said.

“The doctor first lodged an electronic complaint with the Commissioner of Police and Joint CP Crime. She also sent an email to the cyber cell before lodging a complaint at the Purba Jadavpur police station,” said the officer. Police said the driver was arrested within hours of the victim filing a report.

Recent incidents

On October 26, a woman from Delhi shared a terrible story on Reddit about receiving rape threats from an Uber driver while she was driving alone at night. The driver allegedly asked: “If I did something to you in five minutes, do you think your mother could come and help you?”

The taxi driver asked her: “What were you doing so late at night? You know, if you were a guy, I wouldn’t give you a ride at all.”

He then said that women should not drive to work alone or leave so late, because if they are raped later, then the drivers will be blamed. To get out of the situation, the woman said that she was sharing her place of travel with her mother, who could track her down.

On October 14, a student from Manipur accused the Delhi Police of apathy to her complaint of harassment by a taxi driver who allegedly offered the man “an easy way to bail”.

During the trip, the driver from the online taxi aggregator kept asking awkward questions. She claimed that the driver held her against her will and drove to a remote area with the intention of raping her. When she resisted the driver’s advances, he even threatened to kill her.

(With PTI inputs)