Uber, in its plea to the Delhi High Court, alleged that Ola’s employees have created over 93,000 fake accounts across India on Uber’s platform and were using them to make false bookings which were later cancelled and thus, causing loss to Uber which has to pay the cancellation charges.
It has claimed to have paid over Rs five lakh as cancellation charges and alleged that by making false bookings, Ola was “squatting” on cabs associated with Uber.
Ola, on the other hand, contended in the court that Uber’s plea is an “offshoot” of the contempt petition filed against it by Ola for allegedly not complying with court directions to phase out diesel cabs.
The Delhi High Court, on Wednesday, sought response of ANI
Technologies, which runs app-based cab service under the name of Ola, on its
competitor Uber’s plea seeking Rs 49.61 crore as damages from the company for allegedly
interfering in its business.
In view of the submission made by Ola, Justice Vipin Sanghi directed Ola to abide by its statement and listed the matter for further hearing on September 14. Uber was asked to file its rejoinder to Ola’s reply in another four weeks.
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