Nobody was injured within the incident, mentioned police.
Bengaluru:
A 26 yr previous man has been arrested for allegedly setting hearth to an Ola Electrical showroom in Karnataka over unsatisfactory servicing of a recently-purchased e-scooter, a police official mentioned on Wednesday.
The incident comes amid rising public ire over servicing at Ola Electrical, India’s no.1 e-scooter maker. A number of mechanics have mentioned Ola service centres face important backlog and are seeing dealing with issue in coping with the quantity of complaints.
Karnataka: A buyer set an Ola showroom in Kalaburagi on hearth after dealing with points with the continued service of his new bike.
Following a verbal argument with the showroom proprietor yesterday night, he set the showroom on hearth. A case has been registered at Kalaburagi Chowk… pic.twitter.com/AItGyakP4f
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Mohammad Nadeem, a mechanic by career, purchased the two-wheeler final month, just a few days after which he introduced it again for servicing on dealing with hassle with the scooter, the commissioner of police for Kalaburagi, a metropolis some 570 kilometres from the tech capital of Bengaluru, mentioned by phone.
“The (servicing) response was not good, he went a number of instances. Yesterday (Tuesday), when he went, he carried petrol and set hearth to 6 bikes,” he mentioned.
Nobody was injured within the incident, he mentioned.
Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm what the issue with the car was.
The police officer, Sharanappa S.D, quantified the harm to the showroom to be price Rs 850,000 rupees.
Ola Electrical, which listed on inventory exchanges final month, didn’t instantly reply to Reuters request for remark.
Reuters was not capable of attain Nadeem and the Ola showroom for remark.
Ola has 431 service stations throughout India, in accordance with its web site.
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