The sessions court has acquitted an Ola cab driver of charges related to insulting a woman’s modesty, but upheld his conviction for criminal intimidation with a reduced sentence in an altercation case. The case stems from a 2018 late-night altercation at Mumbai International Airport involving the driver, Yashwant Suranje, and a family returning from Hong Kong.

In January this year, a magistrate court had originally convicted Suranje for offences committed under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). It then sentenced him to six months of rigorous imprisonment for insulting the modesty, while he was sent to three months jail for the other two charges.