BANGALORE: Cab services to and from Bangalore International Airport resumed around Sunday midnight after police lathi charged striking cab drivers to disperse them.
According to sources, the police asked the cab drivers to withdraw their stir over compensation for their colleague, who died earlier in the day on Sunday. When they refused to take back the stir till the family was suitably compensated the police resorted to lathi charge.
The cab services of Mega cabs, Meru cabs and KSTDC were affected for over 12 hours on Sunday after nearly 1500 cab drivers resorted to snap stir when Mega cabs driver Maruthi Prasanna fainted due to low blood pressure. Drivers alleged that Maruthi Prasanna, who died later while being taken to hospital, did not receive timely help from BIAL authorities. They demanded that his family be suitably compensated.
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