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| India taxi rape allegation: Uber booking service banned in Delhi | |
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| Authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, have banned international taxi-booking service Uber after a driver allegedly raped a female passenger. | Authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, have banned international taxi-booking service Uber after a driver allegedly raped a female passenger. |
| A transport department official said the company had been "blacklisted" for "misleading customers". | A transport department official said the company had been "blacklisted" for "misleading customers". |
| The 26-year-old woman used the smartphone app to take a taxi home on Friday but says she was taken to a secluded area and raped. | |
| The driver has been remanded in custody for three days. | |
| He was arrested on Sunday and appeared in court on Monday afternoon. | |
| Some who had gathered outside the court tried to attack him as he was brought out, but police rushed him to a waiting van and took him away. | |
| Police say will charge him with raping the finance company employee on Friday night when she used the taxi to take her home from a restaurant. | |
| Uber, which is growing in popularity in India, has been accused of failing to conduct adequate checks on its drivers. | Uber, which is growing in popularity in India, has been accused of failing to conduct adequate checks on its drivers. |
| "(The) Transport Department has banned all activities relating to providing any transport service by the www.Uber.com with immediate effect," news agency AFP reported, quoting from a government statement. | "(The) Transport Department has banned all activities relating to providing any transport service by the www.Uber.com with immediate effect," news agency AFP reported, quoting from a government statement. |
| The ban means any Uber taxi in Delhi will now attract a fine or even be impounded, officials say. | The ban means any Uber taxi in Delhi will now attract a fine or even be impounded, officials say. |
| The company is still accepting bookings on its app and it is not yet clear how the ban will be enforced since Uber taxis do not carry any visible branding. | |
| Before the ban was announced, Uber described the incident as "horrific" and said it would do everything "to help bring this perpetrator to justice". | |
| "Our entire team's hearts go out to the victim of this despicable crime. We will do everything, I repeat, everything to help bring this perpetrator to justice and to support the victim and her family in her recovery," Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement. | |
| He said Uber would "work with the government to establish clear background checks currently absent in their commercial transportation licensing programs". | |
| Uber, which is based in San-Francisco, said safety was paramount and that it had GPS traces of all journeys. | |
| Established in 2009, the company operates in dozens of countries and recently attracted investment which values it at $40bn (£25bn). | |
| The latest allegation of rape has again put the spotlight on the issue of sexual violence against Indian women, following a series of recent incidents. | |
| It comes days before the second anniversary of the gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi, which prompted global outrage and a tightening of the laws on sexual violence. | |
| Correspondents, however, say tougher laws have failed to bring down the number of rape cases - according to the National Crime Records Bureau, India recorded 33,707 cases in 2013 as against 24,923 in 2012. | |
| And many in India are taking to social media to express their anger about the latest incident with #DelhiShamedAgain trending heavily on Twitter. |