Uber cab rape: PM Modi takes case seriously, asks NSA to look into matter

New Delhi: With the uproar over the Delhi Uber cab rape continuing unabated, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed his national security adviser, Ajit Doval, to look into the reported “failures” and take adequate measures to ensure that women were protected.

Delhi police commissioner B.S. Bassi met the NSA late Monday evening, while on Tuesday he met home minister Rajnath Singh at Parliament House and briefied him on the developments. Differences appear to have emerged both within the government and in political circles over the advisability of the government’s move to ban all Web-based taxi services across the country, following the ban imposed by the Delhi government on Monday.

Transport minister Nitin Gadkari and several other NDA and Opposition leaders raised objections to the banning of all Web-based taxi services. Home minister Rajnath Singh, who made an announcement in Parliament on the issue, said the government’s intentions should not be questioned, and made it clear that a ban was not the objective, instead it was to “regulate the operations” of taxi services.