Notice issued to call centre after driver flouts police order

Vehicle without a GPS despite Delhi police orders

PTI | January 12, 2011



Delhi Police today issued a notice to a multinational call centre operating from Cyber City in Gurgaon to explain how its cab driver flouted an order of not dropping a woman staffer at her doorstep.

In a first such incident, driver Jag Dev was arrested last night for allegedly dropping a woman BPO employee at a traffic intersection instead of her home.

"We have issued a notice under Section 144 to explain why the woman employee was not dropped at her home. If their explanation is not satisfactory, then the employer will face the music," V Renganathan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), said.

The driver, engaged by the call centre in Cyber City DLF Phase-2 for dropping BPO staffers, dropped the girl last and that too not in front of her house but a traffic intersection. The vehicle also did not have a Global Positioning System (GPS) as prescribed by Delhi Police.

Dev allegedly dropped the girl alone at Uttam Nagar Chowk at around 8.30 PM and started picking passengers from that point itself.

A patrol vehicle stopped the car and questioned the driver in Janakpuri area after which he was arrested for violation of orders issued under Section 144 CrPC.

In the wake of a call-centre employee being abducted and raped in Dhaula Kuan, Delhi Police had in December issued an order making it mandatory for BPOs, corporates and media houses to drop their women employees at their houses during night hours and ensure that they make a telephone call to convey that they have reached safely.

The order was issued under Section 144 of CrPC and the employers violating the order are liable to be punished under Section 188 (disobedience of an official order) of Indian Penal Code which entails an imprisonment of upto six months or a fine of Rs 1,000 or both.

"The first offence could attract an imprisonment of one month and a fine," a senior police official said.

 

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