Police on Monday submitted the chargesheet against a yellow taxi driver arrested earlier this month based on actor-turned-MP Mimi Chakraborty’s complaint that he had passed lewd remarks at her.

Deba Yadav, 32, has been charged with outraging modesty, stalking, and causing outrage of modesty through words and gestures.

The charges carry a maximum punishment of five years in jail.

Cops submitted the chargesheet once Chakraborty recorded her statement before a magistrate in court and visited the jail for a test identification parade.

“Some people might feel this whole thing happened so quickly because I am an MP. It is not like that. I went through all the procedures that one goes through. This episode sends out a signal… no one can get away by making lewd gestures or teasing women,” she said.

The driver passed lewd remarks and made gestures at Chakraborty when her car pulled up next to his at a traffic signal near Ballygunge phari on September 13, she had alleged in her complaint with Gariahat police station the same day.

She was headed home to Kasba when she stepped out of her car to confront Yadav but had to let him go as the two cars had blocked the road and triggered a snarl.

Yadav was arrested in Panchanangram the next day.

He is still to get bail. “Since we filed the chargesheet before he could secure bail, we will request custody trial to set an example,” an officer said.

The court will go through the charges slapped by the police and the evidence submitted before framing charges — either by adding or reducing or maintaining the existing charges — based on which the trial will commence.