Toronto police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a ride-share sexual assault in the Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue West area.<\/p>\n
Investigators say just after midnight on Aug. 9, a man was hired by the victim and a friend through a ride-share platform. The man reportedly dropped the friend off and offered to drive the victim home for free. The man allegedly sexually assaulted the victim before dropping her off. <\/p>\n
Investigators say the victim had no injuries.<\/p>\n
Police have arrested 28-year-old Nishu Bansal from Brampton, and charged him with sexual assault.<\/p>\n
He was scheduled to appear in court on Aug.14 at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre.<\/p>\n
Police have not identified the ride-share platform Bansal was using, but they say they are concerned there may be other victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a ride-share sexual assault in the Yonge Street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-92532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92532","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=92532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}