{"id":92286,"date":"2025-08-23T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92286\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:27:09","slug":"brampton-rideshare-driver-charged-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92286\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton rideshare driver charged with sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A rideshare driver has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting a passenger on the way home in midtown Toronto earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63845\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63845\/\">Toronto police said<\/a> the victim and their friend hired the suspect through a rideshare platform sometime after midnight on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After dropping the friend, the suspect offered to drive the victim home for free, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect allegedly sexually assaulted the victim during the ride home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Saturday, police announced that they arrested the suspect, 28-year-old Nishu Bansal of Brampton, on Aug. 23. He was charged with sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they are concerned there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They are being asked to contact the investigators at 416-808-5300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rideshare driver has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting a passenger on the way home in midtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-92286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}