After tracking for days and trying to figure out the modus operandi used by some Ola drivers to cheat their passengers, the Crime Branch arrested three of them on Sunday for manipulating the GPS tracker on their phones to clock-in more kilometres and force passengers to pay more for their rides. The trio used to ferry passengers only from the Mumbai Airport to various places in Navi Mumbai and the cops suspect about 50 drivers of the cab aggregator to be involved in the racket, which they have been running since October last year.

According to cops, based on a tip-off the officers started working on the matter to understand the modus operandi of the drivers and how they would manipulate the GPS tracker using the Ola app. "We sent our officers as dummy passengers to understand how they were clocking-in more kilometres," said Vinayak Mer, senior PI, Crime Branch Unit 1.