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Rapido Booked By Pune Police Over Alleged Unauthorised Bike-Taxi Operations

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Rapido Booked By Pune Police Over Alleged Unauthorised Bike-Taxi Operations

Pune Police has booked Rapido parent Roppen Transportation Services Pvt Ltd for allegedly running bike-taxi services without the required licence and regulatory approvals, according to an FIR registered at Vishrantwadi police station yesterday. 

The FIR alleges that the company used its app to facilitate paid passenger rides on two-wheelers registered as non-transport vehicles.

The development was first reported by Times of India. Inc42 has reached out to Rapido for comment. The story will be updated on receiving a response. 

The alleged violation came to light when Pune RTO motor vehicle inspector Prasad Govardhan Surwase booked a ride through the Rapido app during an enforcement drive against unauthorised bike-taxi operations.

The action came a day after Pune District Collector and Regional Transport Authority (RTA) chairman Jitendra Dudi directed Rapido to immediately suspend bike-taxi operations across Pune district until it obtained an ebike taxi aggregator licence. The FIR also states that the RTO issued the company a notice on Thursday (October 15).

The directive followed a meeting with representatives of auto-rickshaw and cab driver unions and aggregators. Dudi warned that continued operations would invite legal action and said the service would not be allowed to resume without a licence. 

At the same meeting, Dudi directed cab aggregators to submit monthly fare data to the district administration and display RTA-approved fares separately on their apps.

The directions followed complaints from auto-rickshaw and cab drivers that aggregators were violating prescribed fare norms.

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