Delhi High Court has sentenced Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav, to life imprisonment, who was held guilty of raping a woman passenger in his taxi and trying to strangulate her while committing the act.
32-year-old Yadav was convicted on October 20 and was held guilty of offences under sections 376(2)(m)(while committing rape causes grievous bodily harm or disfigures or endangers life of a woman), 366 (abducting with an intent to compel her for marriage), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 323 (causing hurt) of the IPC.
Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja, who had convicted 32-year-old Shiv Kumar Yadav, pronounced the quantum of sentence today.
The offence of endangering woman’s life while raping her entails a minimum of 10 years rigorous imprisonment and a maximum of life term which mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person’s natural life..
In its 99-page judgement, the special fast track court set up to deal with cases of sexual offences against women has said the victim was reminded of the horrific December 16, 2012 gang-rape incident after the driver of the US-based service provider had threatened to insert an iron rod in her body.
The court has held that threat perception was very much real in the mind of the 25-year-old victim when the driver had intimated and threatened her that too at an isolated spot in the late hours of December 5, 2014 night.
According to the prosecution, the incident took place on the night of December 5 last year when the victim, a finance executive working in Gurgaon, was heading back to her house at Inderlok.
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