Uber Confirms It Is Assisting Police In India Following An Alleged Rape

A numeral of media in the country — as well as Times of India and NDTV — report that a lady was raped for a moment between Friday night and the early hours of Saturday later than taking an Uber ride home. The lady, whose age is reported as 25 and 27 by a variety of media, is said to have fallen sleeping in the backside of the car. When she woke up to find the car parked in a private spot, the driver is after that reported to have raped her and, later than taking her home, endangered to kill her if she reported the incident.
The lady telephoned police in the early on hours of Saturday morning having in fact provide a photo of the driver’s license plate.
Though, media report that the driver is absent. .
The company added some civilization to that very waterless response with a tweet as of its New Delhi account
Uber is no visitor to controversy, but this assumed rape in India — which police are still to verify — is one of its a large amount important incident to date.
News of this event comes just over a day after the corporation closed a 2nd billion-dollar-plus surrounding of funding this year, at a assessment of more than $40 billion. Uber has earmarked its newest funding round to assist develop its commerce in Asia Pacific, where India is very a great deal a key part of its plans.
This is, unluckily, not the first sexual objection against an Uber driver by any means. A traveler in Washington D.C. accused a driver of rape in 2012, but prosecutors did not file charges. Previous this year, an Uber driver was found blameworthy of fondling a lady passenger, though Uber had canceled his driver account follow the event.