THE
MISOGYNE
OF INDIA - A
LOOK AT
THE RECENT
UBER RAPE
CASE
SAAKSHI SHARMA [SYMBIOSIS
LAW SCHOOL, PUNE]
On December 5th, 2014, a 25 year old executive, working
for a global company as a financial analyst, was raped by
her Uber cab driver. The driver reportedly threatened to
kill her if she went to the police, but the woman took a
photo of the car’s number plate, and then reported the
crime to the authorities.
On 7th December, 2014, the accused cab driver, Shiv
Kumar Yadav was caught by a joint team of the Delhi and
Mathura police in the city of Mathura where his car was
found abandoned a day earlier. The accused was
produced in Delhi High Court on 8th December, 2014,
where the court sent him to police custody for 3 days.
According to the police reports, the cab driver
has shown absolutely no remorse, whatsoever,
for his act, and has in fact gone on record to
say that he has been extremely libidinous since
his school days and that seeing the girl sleeping
alone in the backseat late at night was too
much of a temptation for him to resist and so
he took the car to a deserted spot and then
raped her. Another scandalous statement made
by the taxi driver was that the girl fell asleep in
the back of a car late at night, and hence was in
a way asking for it, since otherwise she
would’ve stayed awake and aler t. These
statements are evident enough of the
perverted mind of the accused.
Although Uber claimed that it had employed
Shiv Kumar based on his "Char acter
Certificate" "issued" by police, police stated
that the certificate was "fake" and lodged
forgery case against the cab driver. An FIR was
registered against Uber for cheating its
customers and violating.
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