This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
Reset on:
Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here
INDIAN capital New Delhi banned taxi-booking service Uber yesterday after a woman reported being raped by one of its drivers.
Police said they expected a court to formally charge Shiv Kumar Yadav with raping the finance company employee on Friday night.
San Francisco-based Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick said the company would do “everything to bring the perpetrator to justice and to support the victim and her family in her recovery.”
The New Delhi ban is a blow for Uber, which has courted controversy around the world with a service based on hailing taxis from a smartphone app.
The firm, founded in 2009 and now present in more than 200 cities across the world, has faced privacy concerns.
And a Dutch court ruled yesterday that Uber must stop using drivers who do not possess a taxi licence.
The court said that Uber’s “UberPop” service violated taxi laws.
