Our front page report about a 35-year-old woman dying in a cab after a crash by an Uber driver who has a history of rash driving and all the travails that have followed for a traumatised family has resulted in widespread outrage.

The woman was killed on June 14, when the Uber cab she was travelling in smashed into a stationary garbage van wrongly parked on Eastern Express Highway near Bhandup. The driver of the cab, Inderjeet Singh Bhatti, should never have been allowed to drive an Uber as he had been penalised twice for speeding just two months before the accident. The family also received calls from insurance agents and lawyers telling them to register a case with the Motor Vehicle Tribunal and demanding 21 per cent of the compensation amount as fees.