Two executives of a Japanese multinational company, including a Japanese National, were allegedly threatened, harassed and their radio taxi snatched by a group of drunken cab drivers at the busy Iffco Chowk on Gurgaon Expressway on Sunday evening, said police.
However, after a long chase, police arrested one of the cabbies and recovered the taxi — a Mahindra Logan — at Rajiv Chowk. The incident occurred at 8.25 pm when Nozomu Nara Nura (29), the general manager of Kokuyo Co. Limited, Japan and his Indian colleague S Kant Mohanti (32) were on their way to Hotel Imperial in South City. They had landed at the domestic airport in New Delhi from Mumbai and hired a radio taxi, police said.
“When our taxi reached Iffco Chowk, we got down to fetch some groceries. As we returned, we found a group of drunken cabbies were thrashing our driver,” said Mohanti.
“They had intercepted our taxi with their Maxi Cab. Somehow we managed to get away in our cab but it had barely 200 meters when the same group intercepted us again,” said Mohanti.
He said that the group attacked the taxi, dragged the driver out of the vehicle and thrashed him. “Me and my Japanese colleague were terrified. The group of four-five drunk men threatened us and misbehave with us, asking us to get out of the taxi. After this, they sped away with the taxi, leaving us on the road. My Japanese colleague is very frightened as we visit Gurgaon almost every month. We have a factory building coming up in Neemrana Industrial Model Township in neighboring Rajasthan but we stay in Gurgaon,” he added.
{{/usCountry}}He said that the group attacked the taxi, dragged the driver out of the vehicle and thrashed him. “Me and my Japanese colleague were terrified. The group of four-five drunk men threatened us and misbehave with us, asking us to get out of the taxi. After this, they sped away with the taxi, leaving us on the road. My Japanese colleague is very frightened as we visit Gurgaon almost every month. We have a factory building coming up in Neemrana Industrial Model Township in neighboring Rajasthan but we stay in Gurgaon,” he added.
{{/usCountry}}Jagdish Prasad, the SHO of DLF City police station Sector 29 said that as the police received a call, the cabbies were chased along the expressway. The cabbies had rushed first to South city and then to Delhi side on Gurgaon Expressway. From Mahipalpur flyover, the cabbies took a u-turn and came back to Gurgaon and were intercepted at Rajiv chowk, he added. One of them was arrested while other managed to flee.