{"id":1035814,"date":"2026-09-16T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035814"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:58:13","slug":"rapido-fined-rs-10-lakh-for-confirm-shaming-pushing-riders-to-raise-fares-after-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/rapido-fined-rs-10-lakh-for-confirm-shaming-pushing-riders-to-raise-fares-after-booking\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapido fined Rs 10 lakh for \u2018confirm shaming\u2019, pushing riders to raise fares after booking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido for unfair trade practices, misleading advertisements, unfair contract terms and the use of &#8220;dark patterns to prompt riders to pay more before their rides were confirmed,&#8221; reported news agency PTI citing an official statement. <\/p>\n<p>The action against Roppen Transportation Services Pvt Ltd, which operates Rapido, follows a sector-wide examination of cab and bike-taxi aggregator platforms in India. The examination is focused on practices related to pre-ride tipping and dynamic pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido for unfair trade practices, misleading advertisements, unfair contract terms and the use of &#8220;dark patterns to prompt riders to pay more before their rides were confirmed,&#8221; reported news agency PTI citing an official statement. The action against Roppen Transportation Services Pvt Ltd, which operates Rapido, follows a sector-wide examination of cab and bike-taxi aggregator platforms in India. The examination is focused on practices related to pre-ride tipping and dynamic pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035838,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035814\/revisions\/1035838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}