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Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape
RockDoctor writes BBC News is reporting that a 26-year old Indian woman is alleging rape against a driver for the embattled Uber transport-managing company. In a post on the Uber blog, one "Saad Ahmed" implicitly admits that the driver was a Uber driver, that the lift was arranged through Uber's service, and that the full range of Uber's safety mechanisms had been applied to his employment, and by implication, that Uber accepts some culpability for putting this (alleged) rapist into contact with his (alleged) victim. "Our initial investigations have revealed shortcomings of the private cab company which didn't have GPS installed in its cabs and the staff wasn't verified," Delhi Special Commissioner Deepak Mishra said. But Uber says safety was paramount, and added it had GPS traces of all journeys. "We work with licensed driver-partners to provide a safe transportation option, with layers of safeguards such as driver and vehicle information, and ETA-sharing [estimated time of arrival] to ensure there is accountability and traceability of all trips that occur on the Uber platform," its statement added.
Sadly, it appears that rapes are so common in India that they should also ban public parks, buses, trains and Starbucks.
While that may be true, I think that the point being made in this case is that Uber said one thing about their cars/drivers safety, yet post-indicdent it seems that they may not have told the truth.
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While I agree 100% with your statement, there is also the rising problem of false reporting. Now that rape is getting some attention, women in desperate situations are using it as a tool to blackmail men. What it comes down to is that people suck, no matter their gender, nationality, or religion.
W.R.T background checks, someone on Twitter has found a photo of a notarised police certificate stating the guy has no criminal record. So either whoever reported he has one is lying, or the police verification process in India is as unreliable as people say it is.
Regardless, I expect it will make little difference in the court of public opinion.
The law in India? Oh you mean like 498a? Which has been used *many* times by a wife to falsely accuse her husband or his family of trying to demand dowry from her which led to the husband *and his family* to all be arrested and jailed immediately with zero evidence needed. *Just* the accusation. It was only in June of this year that India's Supreme Court put a stop the mandatory arrest policy.
If you think for a second that the wives in India don't have a *very* strong weapon to use if they get raped (let alone for anything else including just petty revenge) then you're very mistaken.
No, it's the wives in India that hold legal power in the marriages. Not the husbands.
(http://www.498a.org/ for more info about it)