A creep posing as a livery cab driver drugged and sexually assaulted a woman inside his car, she told police this week, according to law-enforcement sources.
The 34-year-old woman said she got into 55-year-old Umer Randhawa’s car on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, believing that he was a for-hire car service driver, according to the sources.
He then allegedly drove her to Hancock Street near Irving Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, she told investigators.
At some point during the commute, the passenger claims the fake cabbie gave her an “unknown drug,” causing her to become drowsy, then touched her privates, the sources said.
The victim managed to call her friend on WhatsApp – and her friend called 911, according to the sources.
Officers responded to the Bushwick scene, where Randhawa was arrested and the victim was taken to a local hospital, the sources said.
Randhawa was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and harassment, according to a criminal complaint.
During his Brooklyn Criminal Court arraignment, Randhawa was ordered held on $5,000 bail or $10,000 bond, which he has since posted, according to prosecutors and public records.
But Randhawa – who says he is married, a dad of four and works in a physical therapy practice – told The Post Friday that he is not guilty of the sex crimes and never claimed to be a rideshare driver.
“She made it up,” he said. “It’s all fake.”
Randhawa claimed the woman had been asking him to hang out.
He also claimed that while the two were in the car together, the woman asked him to perform some kind of sexual act and he said no — so she made the false accusations against him.
“Now I’m gonna fight the case,” Randhawa said. “I’m gonna follow up with it. I’m gonna fight until I’m proven not guilty.”
Randhawa has four prior arrests in the Big Apple – the most recent in 2018 for grand larceny, authorities said.
He was previously busted in 2008 for driving while intoxicated, in 2000 for bail jumping and in 1999 for assault, cops said.
