India, Dec. 1 -- The Rajasthan High Court has directed the State Government to encourage app-based ride-hailing platforms to have at least 15 per cent women drivers within six months.

It also directed raising the target to 25 per cent over the next two to three years.

The court order also said that platforms must offer women passengers the option to choose a woman driver as their first preference.

The directions were issued as part of a detailed 35-point order by Justice Ravi Chirania, who termed cybercrime an "unstoppable and rapidly escalating threat" while calling for urgent structural reforms in the state's cyber-policing framework.

The court asked the Government to set up a Rajasthan Cyber Crime Control Centre on the lines of the...