Uttar Pradesh on charges of raping a
27-year-old finance executive in South Delhi last week.
NEW DELHI: A week before a young
executive was raped allegedly by Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav in Delhi, the
popular app-based taxi service had received a complaint about the same driver
from a woman.
Nidhi Shah had
complained to Uber about Yadav who she alleged kept staring at her during the
taxi ride on November 26.
"The driver
said before I got in that the GPS wasn't working and I have to find him by
walking through Chandni Chowk. Me and my partner got in but he kept staring
through the mirror and I felt uncomfortable. I think he was smiling a little
creepily also. Eventually, when he dropped us off, I thought I should report
this to Uber. I had a bad feeling about him," Ms Shah told NDTV from
United States.
"Uber replied
through e-mail saying they will have a chat with the driver. But now I am
blaming myself for what has happened. I feel like why didn't I do something
else about it?" she said.
The mail from Uber
executive Hannah said: "Sorry about what happened here! I've passed along
your feedback to our driver operations team, so that they can check in on Shiv
about it."
The 32-year-old Uber
driver has, according to records, a disturbing pattern of assaulting women.
In 2011, he spent
seven months in a jail in Delhi for allegedly raping a woman who worked at a
pub in Gurgaon. The police says he was acquitted in that case, but is unclear
on how.
Last year, a case of
rape was registered against him in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, which is Yadav's
home state. He was given bail in that case.
On Sunday, he was
arrested from his village in Uttar Pradesh on charges of raping a 27-year-old
finance executive in South Delhi last week. He is now in jail.
Yadav, in fact, also
got bail in other cases including one that charged him with illegal possession
of a gun.
Pasted
from <http:www.ndtv.com