A 26-year-old woman has approached the HSR Layout police after she was allegedly abused, threatened with rape and physically intimidated by an autorickshaw driver a fortnight ago.The victim, who works as a business consultant, claims she hailed an autorickshaw (KA-04-1478) from Spencer Mall on Sarjapur Road to go to Bellandur’s Central Mall bus stop around 6 pm on March 10. The driver, who agreed, suddenly took a wrong turn around five minutes into the journey, and when the victim asked him to stop, demanded Rs 100 from her.When she refused, the driver allegedly threatened to take her to a secluded place and ‘do whatever he wanted with her’. This terrified the victim so much that she shouted that she was going to call the police and the driver suddenly stopped the auto. Even as the victim tried to flee, the accused allegedly held on to her hand and hit her on her back.When a crowd began to gather, the driver allegedly spat on the victim and began abusing her saying she had hailed the auto from BTM Layout but had refused to pay him.Fearing that he could hurt her even more, the petrified victim took to her heels and stopped a passing police patrolling bike with two personnel whom she narrated the incident to.“They noted down the driver’s details, and the victim went home. Her husband tweeted a complaint to the city police commissioner and she then wrote an email detailing the incident against the driver. She said she was going out of town for a few days and requested that an official FIR be filed when she returned, so when she came back, a case was registered under sections 506, 341, 504, and 354. Investigations are on,” said a senior police officer.