New Delhi: Delhi police commissioner Bhim Sein Bassi on Tuesday said the investigation teams were examining the legal liability of US-based Uber taxi-booking service, and probing how the fake police verification certificate was provided to Shiv Kumar Yadav, accused of raping a 27-year-old finance company executive in North Delhi.
The police chief said the city government had issued a notification banning Uber. “We are also legally examining what action can be taken against Uber for not fulfilling its promises,” Mr Bassi said.
After briefing Union home minister Rajnath Singh about the progress of the investigations, Mr Bassi said the police verification certificate issued to Shiv Kumar was found to be false. “An FIR has been registered and it will be probed so that the guilty are punished.”
Meanwhile, it turned out that the driver was a serial sexual offender and was out on bail in a rape case in 2013 — as reported on Monday — but was also involved in a similar case in 2011.
Kumar, 32, had allegedly raped a woman in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh last year and was involved in at least two more cases including molesting another woman.
It emerged that Yadav was arrested in a rape case in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area in 2011 and had spent seven months in Tihar jail.
“UP police has found that he was involved in at least three more cases in the city including a case of rape and a molestation which were lodged in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh. He was out on bail,” said DCP (North) Madhur Verma.
He said Yadav was arrested for separate cases of molestation in 2003, under Arms Act in 2006 and rape and robbery in 2013 in Mainpuri, his hometown. He has now emerged as a big time rogue of Mainpuri, a police official said.
