India Uber driver guilty of rape

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

An Indian court has found an Uber taxi driver guilty of raping a female passenger last year in Delhi.

Shiv Kumar Yadav has also been convicted of criminal intimidation and kidnapping. He had pleaded not guilty.

A 26-year-old woman was taken to a secluded area and raped after booking a journey home with Uber in December.

Delhi later banned Uber and several other web-based taxi firms, accusing them of failing to carry out adequate driver checks.

The company apologised for the incident at the time and acknowledged that it "must do better".

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34578477

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20 October 2015 India

[geek tragedy]

1. Because rape was unheard of in India before Uber arrived nt

[Travis_0004]

2. My thoughs as well

If it was a normal taxi driver, would it stil have made national news, or is it just a chance to take a shot at uber.

[ToxMarz]

3. They accused Uber of not doing adequate background checks.

It may actually be true and he was a known bad guy instead of an unwarranted attack on Uber to deflect from their countries rapiness. Uber apologized and said they need to do better rather than protest the allegation.