Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav gets life imprisonment for raping woman passenger

25-year-old woman executive was raped in Delhi in December last year

New Delhi

: A Delhi court on Tuesday pronounced life imprisonment for Uber rape case convict Shiv Kumar Yadav for raping a 25-year-old woman executive in his taxi.

The court had on October 20 held the 32-year-old driver guilty of raping the 25-year-old woman executive in his taxi in December last year and endangering her life.

It had convicted him 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 and had fixed the case for today for hearing arguments and pronouncing the punishment.

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.

It had told the court that Yadav had slapped her several times and pressed her neck.

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. The offence of endangering woman's life while raping her entails a minimum of 10 years rigorous imprisonment and a maximum of life term.

Yadav, who was arrested from Mathura on December 7, 2014, two days after the incident, is currently in judicial custody. Yadav, however, has denied the allegations levelled against him terming them as -"false-".