Uber cabbie
“She got into the cab around 7pm, but noticed that the vehicle did not have a yellow number plate. She still took the car,” said the DCP.
Minutes into the ride, the woman allegedly found the driver’s conduct suspicious. “The driver called someone and spoke about meeting somewhere and drinking together. The woman immediately checked the driver’s details on the Uber app and found it was another person,” said the DCP.
She panicked when she realised that the driver allegedly chose an isolated route over her preferred route. “The woman tried to jump out of the car when it slowed down at a traffic junction near Mukarba Chowk, but the driver activated the central locking system,” said Khan.
“The driver then threatened to harm the woman and passed sexual remarks. She screamed for help, but was unable to draw anyone’s attention,” said Khan.
When the cab slowed down again near a CNG pump in Jahangirpuri around 9pm, she managed to unlock the door and jump out. “The woman quickly dialled the police control room number even as the driver escaped with the car,” said the officer. Police registered a case of sexual harassment, kidnapping, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation. “Simultaneously, we sought the cab details from Uber,” said the DCP. The same night, the police traced the car and its driver to Sonepat’s Janti Kalan village where the vehicle owner lives. Suresh, deputy director general of GSI.
The GSI which maintains the National Meteorite Repository has a collection of over 700 meteorites. But only four out of these, including the Mukundpura meteorite, belong to the carbonaceous chondrites group. The earliest collection of a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite in the GSI coffer dates back to June 1890, which had struck Nawapalli in Odisha.
Scientists also said that another meteorite had struck Tinsukia in Assam just prior to the Mukundpura meteorite on June 5. It had hit the floodplains of the River Lohit. Even though bigger in size than the Mukundpura one, the Tinsukia meteorite is an ordinary chondrite.