A week before Uber rape case, another woman reported driver Shiv Kumar Yadav for 'staring'

New Delhi: A week before a 26-year-old executive was allegedly raped by Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav in Delhi, another woman took to Twitter to come out with a rather unpleasant ride with the same driver.  

On November 26, Nidhi Shah had complained to Uber about Yadav who she alleged was ‘staring’ at her during the taxi ride.

Talking to a news channel, she said, “He kept staring through the mirror while my partner and I were in the cab. When he dropped us off, I thought of reporting the matter to Uber”.

Shah put up a copy of her email on Twitter and said she was shocked at the news. The mail from Uber executive Hannah said: "Sorry about what happened here! I've passed along your feedback to our driver operations team, so that they can check in on Shiv about it."

Meanwhile, it turned out that Kumar, 32, was a serial sexual offender and was out on bail in a rape case in 2013 — as reported on Monday — but was also involved in a similar case in 2011.

He had allegedly raped a woman in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh last year and was involved in at least two more cases including molesting another woman.

It emerged that Yadav was arrested in a rape case in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area in 2011 and had spent seven months in Tihar jail.

Read: Accused driver is serial sex offender

Yadav was arrested for separate cases of molestation in 2003, under Arms Act in 2006 and rape and robbery in 2013 in Mainpuri, his hometown. He has now emerged as a big time rogue of Mainpuri, a police official said.

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.

Read: PM Modi takes case seriously, asks NSA to look into matter

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.