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| India Uber driver guilty of rape | India Uber driver guilty of rape |
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| An Indian court has found an Uber taxi driver guilty of raping a female passenger last year in Delhi. | An Indian court has found an Uber taxi driver guilty of raping a female passenger last year in Delhi. |
| Shiv Kumar Yadav has also been convicted of criminal intimidation and kidnapping, the prosecution lawyer told the BBC. He had pleaded not guilty. | Shiv Kumar Yadav has also been convicted of criminal intimidation and kidnapping, the prosecution lawyer told the BBC. He had pleaded not guilty. |
| A 26-year-old woman was taken to a secluded area and raped after booking a journey home with Uber in December. | A 26-year-old woman was taken to a secluded area and raped after booking a journey home with Uber in December. |
| Delhi later banned Uber and several other web-based taxi firms for failing to carry out adequate driver checks. | Delhi later banned Uber and several other web-based taxi firms for failing to carry out adequate driver checks. |
| The company apologised for the incident at the time and acknowledged that it "must do better". | The company apologised for the incident at the time and acknowledged that it "must do better". |
| The woman had also filed a lawsuit against the service in a US court, which was later settled out of court. | The woman had also filed a lawsuit against the service in a US court, which was later settled out of court. |
| Rape has been in focus in India since a 23-year-old student was gang-raped and murdered on a bus in Delhi in December 2012, which prompted global outrage and a tightening of laws on sexual violence. | |
| Correspondents, however, say tougher laws have failed to bring down the number of rape cases and a series of high-profile crimes have taken place since then. | |
| Last week there was outrage in the capital after two children were raped on the same day, while a week earlier, a child was raped and slashed with a sharp object, and found unconscious near a railway track. |