Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber cab driver arrested by police for allegedly raping a woman executive in Delhi could be a repeat offender, police officials said.
Police officials in south Delhi told Hindustan Times that he was in jail for nearly two years from 2011 in connection with another rape case. Yadav came out of jail only recently.
In that incident , Yadav who worked as a cab driver, picked up a woman from Gurgaon took her to an isolated spot in Chattarpur and raped her inside the car.
This news would mean a lot of trouble for US online taxi-booking service Uber as they had hired the cab driver without the mandatory police verification. The police verification could have prevented this crime from happening.
Yadav would be produced before a court in the Capital on Monday, Madhur Verma, deputy commissioner of Delhi Police (north), said.
Police served a notice on the firm, asking it to join the investigation. “Every violation by Uber will be evaluated and we’ll go for legal recourse,” Verma said. The police would take legal advice before opting to press a criminal or civil case, he added.
Yadav allegedly assaulted a 25-year-old woman MNC employee in north Delhi's Sarai Rohilla late Friday night.
The alleged rape, reported days before the second anniversary of the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the Capital in December 2012, could have Uber facing legal action.
The cab service initially could not produce the call records of the accused as the server was located in the US.
This made it difficult for the police initially. The breakthrough came after around 12 police teams carried out raids in different parts of UP, especially around Mathura, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of New Delhi where the crime took place.
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