The directions for ensuring security were passed after Ola

and Uber had informed the court that despite orders restraining the drivers' unions from blocking or interfering with their services, there have been incidents of violence, including burning of a cab.

The two unions denied responsibility for such incidents of violence.

The court was hearing the pleas of Uber and Ola seeking to restrain SDAD and Rajdhani and anyone working on their behalf from disrupting their services.

The pleas were moved after hundreds of drivers of Uber and Ola went on an indefinite strike from February 10 in Delhi-NCR to protest against the "low fares" and "lack" of basic amenities.

On plea by Ola and Uber, the court had issued directions restraining anyone, including the two unions and their members, from blocking vehicles or removing or confiscating the mobile devices installed in the cabs.

It had also restrained the two unions, their office- bearers or anyone acting on their behalf, from staging a dharna within 500 metres of the offices here of Ola and Uber.

Uber, in a statement issued after the hearing, said that the demands raised by the union members are based on several incorrect assumptions.

"We have always been open to engaging with driver-partners and will continue to address concerns, if any, on a one-to-one basis," a company spokesperson said.

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