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             India Arrests Uber Taxi Driver after Rape Allegations

   by VOA News

   Indian police have arrested a driver with the international
   taxi-reservation service Uber, following allegations the man raped a
   female passenger.

   Shiv Kumar Yadav, 32, is accused of assaulting the woman, who used the
   mobile phone application on Friday to hire a driver in New Delhi.

   The woman alleges Yadav took her to a secluded area and raped her after
   she fell asleep in the car.

   U.S.-based Uber touts itself as a safe option for door-to-door car
   service, in part because of its cashless, mobile payment system. It
   began serving New Delhi last December.

   Student demonstrators scuffled with law enforcement at police
   headquarters in the capital on Sunday to protest what they described as
   a system of impunity in how the state handles sexual assaults.

   The fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December 2012
   brought renewed attention to sexual violence in the country.
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