In a major blow to Uber, the Delhi Government on Wednesday rejected the US-based cab aggregator's fresh application for registration under the modified Radio Taxi Scheme 2006.
Similar applications from two other prominent web-app based taxi operators, Ola Cabs and Taxi4Sure, were also rejected by the Delhi Government Transport Department.
The Transport Department said the applications in question, a prerequisite for the legal operation of services by respective operators, were rejected because all three failed to declare that they were complying with the conditions of a Home Ministry-imposed ban on their services last year.
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All three operators had applied for fresh licenses through front in late January this year.
A 21-year-old Delhi-based dance teacher was molested aboard an Uber cab over the weekend in Gurgaon. Web-app based cab operators were banned after the rape of a private executive aboard Uber cab in late November, 2014.