An Indian court on Tuesday sentenced the driver of an Uber car to life in prison for raping a young woman passenger.
Shiv Kumar Yadav "will serve regressive imprisonment, which shall mean imprisonment til natural death," judge Kaveri Baweja told the court.
A Delhi court convicted Yadav of four charges last month but sentencing was delayed because of a shortage of police in the Indian capital, where a summit of African leaders was being held at the time.
Yadav was tried by one of the fast-track courts introduced in 2013 following the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi, a crime that sparked nationwide protests about women's safety in India.
India recorded 36,735 rape cases in 2014, with 2,096 of them in Delhi alone. Experts say those figures are likely to represent only the tip of the iceberg.
California-based Uber was accused of failing to conduct adequate background checks after it emerged that Yadav had been accused of assaulting other women, although he had no previous convictions.
The company was officially banned from Delhi, but the ban has not been well enforced and Uber cars continue to operate in the capital.
Uber set up its India operation in September 2013 and now does business in more than a dozen cities.
A Delhi court convicted Yadav of four charges last month but sentencing was delayed because of a shortage of police in the Indian capital, where a summit of African leaders was being held at the time.
Yadav was tried by one of the fast-track courts introduced in 2013 following the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi, a crime that sparked nationwide protests about women's safety in India.
India recorded 36,735 rape cases in 2014, with 2,096 of them in Delhi alone. Experts say those figures are likely to represent only the tip of the iceberg.
California-based Uber was accused of failing to conduct adequate background checks after it emerged that Yadav had been accused of assaulting other women, although he had no previous convictions.
The company was officially banned from Delhi, but the ban has not been well enforced and Uber cars continue to operate in the capital.
Uber set up its India operation in September 2013 and now does business in more than a dozen cities.
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