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Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik has asked Maharashtra’s cyber‑crime police to shut down all unauthorised bike‑taxi apps operating in the state and to file FIRs against the companies and their owners, citing serious public‑safety risks. In a letter to the additional director‑general of police, Sarnaik warned that these services run without any government permission, lack driver verification, insurance, women‑safety measures and emergency response systems, and have led to accidents such as the fatal crash of a woman on an unauthorised bike‑taxi on the Mulund‑Goregaon Link Road. He urged immediate online shutdown of the apps, strict action under the Information Technology and Motor Vehicles Acts, and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators, stressing that the state will not tolerate any illegal system that endangers citizens.
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Discontinue apps for illegal bike taxi ops across Maharashtra, register FIRs: Transport minister’s letter to cyber crime dept | Mumbai News - The Times of India
Maharashtra transport minister urges cyber police to shut illegal bike taxi apps statewide and file FIRs against owners, citing safety risks and a fatal accident.