US-based cab service provider Uber on Tuesday withdrew its plea from Delhi High Court against the ban on its plying after driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was accused of raping a 27-year-old woman executive.
A Delhi court had taken cognizance of the chargesheet filed against the driver during a court hearing yesterday.
The court also extended the judicial custody of arrested accused Shiv Kumar Yadav, 32, till Wednesday.
Yadav, who was driving the cab, had allegedly raped the woman on the night of December 5, last year when the victim, who works for a finance company in Gurgaon, was headed back to her home in north Delhi’s Inderlok area.
He was arrested on December 7 from Mathura in a joint operation by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police and produced before the court on December 8.
The police had filed the charge sheet against Yadav on December 24, 19 days after the incident for alleged offences punishable under sections 376 (rape), 366 (kidnapping or abducting woman with an intent to compel her for marriage), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) under IPC.
—PTI