Man Sets Fire to Ola Electric Showroom in Karnataka Over Service Issues, Arrested
By : Reuters
Update: 2024-09-11 10:08 GMT
Bengaluru: A 26 year old man has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to an Ola Electric showroom in Kalaburagi, Karnataka over unsatisfactory servicing of a recently-purchased e-scooter, a police official said on Wednesday.
The incident comes amid growing public ire over servicing at Ola Electric, India's no.1 e-scooter maker. Several mechanics have said Ola service centres face significant backlog and are seeing facing difficulty in dealing with the volume of complaints.
Mohammad Nadeem, a mechanic by profession, bought the two-wheeler last month, a few days after which he brought it back for servicing on facing trouble with the scooter, the commissioner of police for Kalaburagi said by telephone.
"The (servicing) response was not good, he went multiple times. Yesterday (Tuesday), when he went, he carried petrol and set fire to six bikes," he said.
No one was injured in the incident, he said.
The police officer, Sharanappa S.D, quantified the damage to the showroom to be worth Rs 8,50,000. Ola Electric was listed on stock exchanges last month.