Al Jazeera News :
An Indian court has convicted an Uber driver of raping a young female passenger in the capital last year, his lawyer and the public prosecutor said.
The high profile case sparked fresh safety fears in a city plagued by sexual violence.
The Delhi court found Shiv Kumar Yadav guilty on Tuesday of raping the 25-year-old finance executive as she returned home from dinner with friends.
“The sentence should be handed out as per the crime he has committed,” Vasundhara Pathak Masoodi, a Supreme Court lawyer, told Al Jazeera.
“It is high time that proper guidelines and laws should be implemented for women to move around the city freely, even after sunset,” Masoodi added. Yadav will be sentenced on Friday after being convicted on four charges – rape, abduction, intimidation and causing harm.
“[The] court has convicted him for all the sections for which he was charged,” defence lawyer Dharmender Kumar Mishra told reporters outside the court.
An Indian court has convicted an Uber driver of raping a young female passenger in the capital last year, his lawyer and the public prosecutor said.
The high profile case sparked fresh safety fears in a city plagued by sexual violence.
The Delhi court found Shiv Kumar Yadav guilty on Tuesday of raping the 25-year-old finance executive as she returned home from dinner with friends.
“The sentence should be handed out as per the crime he has committed,” Vasundhara Pathak Masoodi, a Supreme Court lawyer, told Al Jazeera.
“It is high time that proper guidelines and laws should be implemented for women to move around the city freely, even after sunset,” Masoodi added. Yadav will be sentenced on Friday after being convicted on four charges – rape, abduction, intimidation and causing harm.
“[The] court has convicted him for all the sections for which he was charged,” defence lawyer Dharmender Kumar Mishra told reporters outside the court.
