The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed the bail plea of Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav, who was awarded a life sentence for raping a 25-year-old woman executive in 2014.
A Bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta, however, admitted Yadav’s appeal challenging his conviction and sentence handed out by the trial court.
The trial court had awarded the sentence to 33-year-old Yadav on November 3 last year. During the hearing, Yadav’s counsel pleaded before the Bench that his sentence be suspended and that he be released on bail, while claiming improvements in the victim’s testimonies recorded by the police and the magistrate.
Besides the jail term, the trial court had also imposed a fine of Rs. 21,000 on Yadav, who was convicted 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 IPC.
The incident happened on the night of December 5, 2014, when the victim, a finance executive working in Gurgaon, was going home to Inderlok. She had boarded Yadav’s cab from Vasant Vihar. Yadav was arrested on December 7, 2014, from Mathura.
