NEW DELHI, Nov. 29 -- Delhi Police have registered a first information report (FIR) in relation to a Delhi NGO founder's allegations that she was assaulted and forcibly restrained by an Uber driver during a trip in south Delhi.

A senior police officer said that a case had been registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) and 126(2) (wrongful restraint) against the driver. "Further investigation is underway," he said.

On Wednesday, environmentalist and Chintan founder Bharati Chaturvedi, in a social media post, described how a routine trip to a clinic in Sarvodaya Enclave turned ugly when the driver allegedly became aggressive after the GPS began taking them to an incorrect location near Essex...