Delhi court has reserved its order on the quantum of sentence, in the sensational Uber cab rape case in which Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja, who was presiding the special fast track court set up to deal with cases of sexual offences against women, held Shiv Kumar Yadav guilty of raping and endangering the victim’s life in December last year.
The verdict on the quantum of sentence will now be pronounced on 3 November.
Yadav was held guilty for the 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.
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 in north west Delhi. The prosecutor had said that as per the doctor, the scratch marks on the victim’s neck were suggestive of an attempt to strangulate her.
Special Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava, appointed for conducting proceedings in the case, had said he would demand maximum punishment of life imprisonment which under the relevant provision of the amended rape law means jail term till the convict’s remaining natural life.
After the court had convicted Yadav, the victim’s father, who was present in the courtroom, expressed satisfaction that justice has been done to his daughter.
Advocate D K Mishra, who is representing Yadav, had said he would challenge the verdict in the Delhi High Court.
The offence of endangering woman’s life while raping her entails a minimum of 10 years rigorous imprisonment and a maximum of life term.
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