Uber Cab Driver a Repeat Offender, Spent 7 Months in Jail

New Delhi: The Delhi police on Monday revealed that Shiv Kumar Yadav, the 32-year-old cab driver, accused of raping a woman was a repeat offender, and that in 2011, he was arrested in a sexual assault case.

According to records, in 2011 Yadav was accused of sexual assault and was serving a 7 month imprisonment in Delhi’s Tihar jail for the same. He was however, acquitted later.

In yet another horrific rape case, the country’s capital city is shadowed in shame. Yadav, the cab driver, was accused of raping a woman working with a global tax consultancy and advisory firm on Saturday night. The accused was arrested after a 25 minute chase that involved a race through the streets of Mathura and ended with the police busting a house in which the accused had taken shelter.

After ascertaining his presence through a local tip off, the police zeroed in on Yadav. Special commissioner (law and order) Deepak Mishra said that his team had carried out the operation to apprehend Yadav at 6pm through "scientific identification and investigation procedures" involving local intelligence.

Yadav was accompanied by his friend and was heading to a safer hideout after collecting money when the teams closed in on him around 6pm. On spotting the police team he ran through the streets to get away. However, three teams led by ACP Devesh Mahla, ACP Subhash Tandon and SHO Anil Dureja came down on him from three directions.

Yadav entered a random house and locked himself. He was probably looking for a hostage when Dureja's team broke open the door and pinned him down on the floor. He was frisked and checked for weapons or poison that he may be carrying and was subsequently under arrest.

Sources said Yadav has confessed to the crime during interrogation but with little remorse or guilt. During an interrogation he said, "Galti ho gayi saab, kya karoon ab ".

The police have also sent a notice to Uber the rideshare service to join investigations. Investigators asked the cab service to explain the "lapses and negligence" in its operation.

He was produced before a magistrate and has been brought to Delhi amid heavy security. He will be produced before a Delhi court today.

Yadav is said to have been married to his brother's widow. He has two daughters and a stepson. While his wife and daughters stay in Mathura, the boy stays with Yadav's brother in Delhi. Yadav has been a cab driver in Delhi for a few years now.