Cops arrested a cabby yesterday for allegedly raping a young passenger in his taxi at knifepoint after she left a Williamsburg bar.
Gurmeet Singh, 40, picked up the 26-year-old woman on May 6, and she asked to be taken to her Manhattan building, cops said.
After the intoxicated woman fell asleep, Singh, pulled over, bound the victim’s hands with a scarf and began raping her, cops said.
Singh, who lives in Jamaica, Queens, then took the woman’s cellphone and cash and pushed her out of the cab, cops said.
Singh was finally nabbed after a woman in Harlem was raped by a cabdriver on Sept. 23, and investigators got a partial identification of either the cab’s plate or medallion number, police sources said.
Detectives eventually tracked down the cab as the one belonging to Singh, and matched his DNA, the sources said.
Singh, who has no prior arrests, was charged with rape, robbery, assault, menacing, and sex abuse for the alleged Brooklyn attack.
He is also a suspect in the second assault, according to the sources, although he has not been charged in that case.
Calls to the Taxi and Limousine Commission were not immediately returned.
A man who identified himself as Singh’s father said he was shocked to hear his son was charged with the crime.
“I can’t believe it. This is not right,” the man said.
Additional reporting by Tim Perone