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Police detains AAP supporters protesting outside Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence over Delhi rape issue pic.twitter.com/yAqfCnbXyA — ANI (@ANI_news) December 8, 2014

(With inputs from PTI)

NEW DELHI: The 32-year-old cabbie, who allegedly raped an executive on Friday night, would not have been behind the wheel of the Uber taxi had the US-based company run a background check and got police verification done as he had earlier been jailed too in a rape case.Shiv Kumar Yadav, who was arrested yesterday in his home town Mathura, is a repeat offender, it was revealed during his initial interrogation by the police.He has allegedly told the police that he had spent seven months in jail in a rape case which was filed against him in south Delhi's Mehrauli area in 2011."He claims that he was later acquitted in the case. We are verifying these claims," said a police official.Yadav will be produced before a local court on Monday and his police custody will be sought for further investigation and questioning.He was brought to Delhi last night after being arrested from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, about 160km from the national capital.Yadav is married to his brother's widow. He has two daughters and a stepson. While his wife and daughters stay in Mathura, the boy stays with Yadav's brother in Delhi. Yadav has been a cab driver in Delhi for a few years now.Sources said he has confessed to the crime during interrogation but has shown little remorse. "Galti ho gayi saab, kya karoon ab (I committed a mistake. What do I do now)," he told an interrogator.The police have also sent a notice to the rideshare service Uber to join investigations and explain the "lapses and negligence" in its operation which has drawn the attention of investigators.A source in the probe team told TOI that the police had zeroed in on Yadav on Sunday afternoon after ascertaining his presence through a local tip-off. Special commissioner (law and order) Deepak Mishra said that his team had carried out the operation to apprehend Yadav at 6pm through "scientific identification and investigation procedures" involving local intelligence.Yadav was accompanied by a friend and was apparently heading to a safer hideout after collecting money when the teams closed in on him around 6pm. Yadav spotted the police team and ran through the streets to dodge them. However, three teams led by ACP Devesh Mahla, ACP Subhash Tandon and SHO Anil Dureja zeroed in on him from three directions.Yadav entered a random house and locked himself. He was apparently looking for a hostage when Dureja's team broke open the door and pinned him down on the floor. He was overpowered and frisked for weapons or poison that he may be carrying and was subsequently placed under arrest.Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers and NSUI members staged protests outside the residence of Union home minister Rajnath Singh over the issue this morning.