'I Have Been Raped,' She Texted, Mistakenly to
Driver
NEW DELHI: The woman who was raped
allegedly by an Uber cab driver on Friday texted her friend about the incident
but the message, in a chilling mistake, went to her attacker.
"I have been
raped by my cab driver," the woman texted, after being dumped on the road
by the cab driver, Shiv Kumar Yadav.
The message went to
the mobile phone of the last caller, which happened to be the driver, who had
threatened to come back for her if she spoke to the police. Yadav had
reportedly dialed his own phone from the woman's number and told her he would
track her down.
Sources say on
receiving the message, Yadav decided to leave town immediately and made plans
to escape to Nepal with his family. He was, however, caught on Sunday.
The woman has told
the police that she dozed off in the cab on her way home to Inderlok in north
Delhi and woke up to find the man molesting her.
The police say Yadav
did not show any remorse about his crime.
Yadav, who was
arrested from Mathura, said on finding the woman asleep, he drove on and parked
the car 4 km ahead of her house.
When the woman
awoke, Yadav admitted that he had grabbed her by the throat and threatened to
shove an iron rod inside her unless she kept quiet - a chilling reminder of the
Delhi bus gangrape case of December 16, 2012.
Yadav had been
booked in a rape case three years ago as well and spent seven months in jail.
According to the case lodged by the police in December 2011, he had raped the
woman passenger - a 22-year-old who worked in a Gurgaon pub - at knifepoint,
after taking her to at an isolated spot.
This time, he was
arrested after a two-day manhunt from Mathura. The rape survivor, who had hired
the car from Uber - a popular app through which people hire cabs - had taken a
photo of the number plate when Yadav finally pushed her out of the car.
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