Bengaluru: Four Passengers rob Ola cab driver, force his wife to undress for them on video call
Bengaluru, Dec 02: When Ola cab driver Somashekhar got a booking for going to Bengaluru’s Adugodi to Dommasandra on Friday night, little did he know that it would turn out to be the worst experience of his life. The four men who boarded his cab at 10.30pm robbed him off all his money, thrashed him and asked his wife to strip for them on a video call and took screenshots of it.
When the car reached the destination at around 10.30 pm, the passengers asked the driver to drive towards their home. As he drove little distance, the accused attacked him and snatched everything. They even took his car key and started driving.
"They drove the car for around 100 km. They snatched all my money. I had Rs 9,000 in my bank account. But they wanted more and asked me to get it from friends. I had Rs 20,000 rupees in my Paytm account. I called a relative, sent the money to him via Paytm and asked him to transfer the money to my bank account, which these men have withdrawn," said Somashekhar
Four passengers booked the Ola cab to go to Dommasandra from Adugodi, around 22 km, in Bengaluru on Friday night. They boarded the cab at 10.30 pm. While going, they thrashed driver Somashekar, snatched his money and mobile phone and asked his wife to undress for them on a video call. Later, they even took screen shots of the video.
Somashekhar was taken to a lodge in Channapatna in Ramanagara district on Saturday morning. Later, he excused himself to go the washroom and escaped from there by jumping out of the toilet window.
He went to a nearby police station and narrated his ordeal. But by the time Channapatna police reached the spot, the men had fled the scene. A case has been registered at Adugodi police station.
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Ishan Kishan to lead SRH in early part of IPL 2026
Hyderabad (PTI): Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday appointed India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan as interim captain for the early part of IPL 2026, with Abhishek Sharma as his deputy, while Pat Cummins recovers from his injury.
Cummins has been sidelined with a stress injury on his lower back, which kept him away for a major part of the last Ashes series Down Under as well as the T20 World Cup.
"Pat Cummins will miss a few games while recovering from injury. Until he recovers, Ishan Kishan will be the captain and Abhishek Sharma will be the vice-captain," the franchise said on social media.
IPL 2016 winners SRH, however, did not specify the number of matches Cummins is set to miss.
Kishan's appointment as SRH's stand-in skipper comes after a successful run across formats.
The left-handed batter played a key role in India's title-winning campaign in the T20 World Cup, finishing as the fourth-highest run-scorer in the tournament with 317 runs in nine matches at 199.37. He averaged 80.25 and struck three half-centuries.
His exploits with the willow also saw Kishan rising to the No.2 spot in the ICC rankings for T20I batters, a list which is led by Abhishek.
Earlier this season, Kishan had captained Jharkhand to their first-ever title in India's premier domestic T20 competition, Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.
