New Delhi: The Asia-Pacific head of US-based cab service Uber will be questioned by Delhi Police for the second consecutive day on Wednesday in connection with the rape of a 27-year-old finance executive by the company's driver.
Eric Alexander, the Uber Asia-Pacific head, had joined the investigation yesterday and had met senior police officials of north district at Civil Lines.
He was issued a notice by police under section 91 CrPC to provide certain documents of the company.
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"We have asked him to submit documents under eight pointers which include details of all the taxis amid its drivers working with them and how they checked their antecedents and the details of the directors of the company," said a senior police official.
Alexander, along with other senior Uber executives, also visited the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) office yesterday after being summoned by it.
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Delhi Police, which has already filed an FIR against Uber charging it with cheating its customers and defying government orders, has been questioning senior Uber officials for the last three days.
The company was banned from operating in the city by Delhi government on Monday.
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Shiv Kumar Yadav, who was driving the uber cab, had allegedly raped the woman on Friday night when the victim, who works for a finance company in Gurgaon, was headed back to her home in north Delhi's Inderlok area.
Police recover accused cabbie's iPhone
Delhi Police has recovered the iPhone, which was provided by Uber to the driver accused of raping the 27-year-old finance company executive on Friday night.
The smartphone was recovered from Mathura by a Delhi Police team, which had gone there with the accused Shiv Kumar Yadav on Tuesday in search of the phone. The phone was recovered at his instance.
Police have already recovered two of the three phones used by Yadav.
Uber provides its cab drivers an iPhone with the Uber App. Customers book a cab through the company's App. The system then sends a message to the driver of a cab nearest to the customer and when he accepts the 'assignment', his name, photo and other details of the cab like its registration number is sent to the customer through this App.
"The phone is an important evidence for us. It will prove that Yadav works for Uber, which will help us prove the culpability of the cab service. It will also prove that Yadav was driving the cab which the victim has booked," said a senior police official.
Its GPS signature will help us corroborate the route from where she was picked, the course the cab took to reach the spot where the crime took place and when he dropped the victim near her home, he said.
The accused driver had dropped a message in the company's system that the customer has been dropped and then exited the App. He had then fled to Mathura.
