Uber India's first female taxi driver found dead in her home...
Veerath Bharathi, Uber's
first female cab driver in India, was found dead in her rented house in the
city's northwest suburb, police said on Tuesday, June 28.
"It appears to be a
case of suicide, as the victim's (V. Bharathi) body was found hanging by a
cloth-like rope from the ceiling of a room by her landlord on Monday night,"
Sanjay Nagar police inspector Prakash said.
Though no suicide note
was found in her house, police registered a case of unnatural death and shifted
the body to a state-run hospital for autopsy to ascertain the cause of
Bharathi's death.
"The landlord went
to the third floor of his house where Bharathi was staying in the rented
portion to check her whereabouts as he did not see her again since Sunday night
and found her body hanging through the room's window and alerted us,"
Prakash recalled.
Bharathi, who hails from
Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, was staying alone in the house as she was single and
orphaned. Her cab was found parked in front of the house in Nagashettyhalli
colony.
"As per our
records, Bharathi was one of the early women taxi drivers in the city and
joined the all-women cab service, Angel City Cabs two years ago and later
registered her vehicle with aggregator Uber, the online personal transportation
firm," Prakash added.
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