Police arrested seven app-cab drivers on Saturday morning for attacking or waylaying Uber and Ola cars on the EM Bypass and forcing passengers to alight, taking the number of arrests in connection with the incident on Thursday to 21.

Senior officers of the traffic department said the process of suspending driving licences would start soon.

The decision to suspend driving licenses for a period of three to six months was taken to penalise app-cab drivers who allegedly indulged in vandalism in the name of protesting the policies followed by Ola and Uber.

Some of these drivers had stopped app cabs on the EM Bypass near the Science City crossing on Thursday, hurled stones, smashed windows and forced passengers to alight. Six drivers were rounded up after the alleged vandalism.

Similar incidents were reported on the airport-bound flank of VIP Road. Eight persons were arrested by Bidhannagar police.

“The sections under which the accused have been booked are bailable. But we will get their driving licences cancelled to keep them from repeating what they did,” said a senior officer in Lalbazar, the city police headquarters.

The state government had held a meeting on Thursday with the app-cab aggregators, representatives of the online cab operators’ guild and the police at the Kasba office of the public vehicles department.

One of the app-cab aggregators did not send a representative to the meeting, triggering a deadlock on the proposed fare-sharing formula and the system of blocking drivers from the online platform based on passenger ratings.

Woman harassed

A woman from Delhi has lodged a police complaint after she was allegedly forced to get off an app cab at an “unknown destination” on Friday because the driver wanted to be paid in cash.

The woman had boarded the app cab at Howrah railway station and was going to Kudghat. Her husband had booked the cab for her and opted for online payment.