New Delhi: A 28-year-old cab driver, who allegedly pretended to be registered with a popular app-based taxi service, has been arrested for allegedly misbehaving with two passengers ' a joint secretary rank officer at a Union ministry and her teenage daughter ' and later deserting them near Nizamuddin area here, police said today.

The incident took place yesterday evening when the officer and her 18-year-old daughter had gone to a Diwali fair in south-east Delhi and booked an app-based cab for their residence in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri area, said police.