Woman raped by cabbie in Dwarka

NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old passenger was allegedly raped by a cab driver in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka on Thursday night, in a stark reminder of last year’s Uber rape case. The driver was arrested after a brief chase when a passerby heard the woman scream and alerted a police patrol vehicle.

The woman, who works at a mall in Rajouri Garden, had boarded the private cab at 10.30pm from the Dwarka Mor Metro station to reach her home in Madhu Vihar. The driver allegedly raped her after dropping off another passenger at Rajapuri. >> P3 NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to challenge in the Supreme Court the recent ban on diesel vehicles older than 10 years in Delhi-NCR, saying the green tribunal’s order was anticonsumer and violated provisions of the motor vehicles act.

The Centre’s proposal came at a time when the National Green Tribunal (NGT) refused a request Friday to postpone its recent order banning old polluting vehicles by six months. The tribunal noted that diesel-burning vehicles have been the main contributor to Delhi’s air pollution, which has reached such dangerous levels that doctors were finding that a person’s lungs had started to behave like that of a smoker by the age of 35.

But a government official argued that a blanket ban could trigger a domino effect as it would not only violate a consumer’s rights but also take off the roads vehicles that meet fitness standards and emission norms.

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