New Delhi: The driver of a Gurgaon-based global business process outsourcing firm has been arrested for allegedly violating Delhi Police's order of dropping a woman employee, returning home at odd hours from work, at her doorsteps. The driver, Sunil Kumar, had dropped the company's woman employee on the main road at a deserted place, about a kilometre away from her house in B-Block Amar Colony, in the wee hours of on Thursday.
She was spotted walking on the deserted road alone by two constables, who were on patrolling duty in A and B Block of Amar Colony, a senior police official said. When asked, the woman said she was dropped by the company's cab and she was going home. The police personnel then chased the vehicle and arrested Kumar, a resident of Indira Colony in Faridabad, for disobeying an official order. After the Dhaula Kuan rape case in 2011, Delhi Police had issued an order making it mandatory for business process outsourcing firms, corporate and media houses to drop their women employees at their doorsteps at night.
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