A private consultant in Hyderabad was in for a shock after his trip to Nizamabad via an Ola cab, came up to Rs 9 lakh.
On August 24, Rathish Sekhar reportedly left for Nizamabad in the morning and came back in the evening on the same day.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Rathish said "When I booked the cab the estimate shown on my phone was about Rs 5,000. When I actually returned, the bill showed Rs 9.15 lakh..There were no dots between the numericals. For example, some times the bill amount is displayed as ‘9158.87’ which would mean Rs 9,158. But even Rs 9,000 would be almost double the estimate"
The DC report adds that while he had travelled around 450 km, the trip showed the distance travelled as 85,427 km.
After a call to Ola, the final bill was recalculated to Rs 4,812. The company has apologized for the incident and said that it was a computer error.