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.