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Thetoday told the Delhithat, other aggregators of taxis or any operator, ought to be regulated in law to ensure security and safety of the users.The submission was made before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath, which is hearing Uber's plea that Delhi government be restrained from interfering with its business.The AAP government, however, said that Uber's plea is "not maintainable as they have not approached this this court with clean hands and are not entitled to any discretionary remedy for they are running their business illegally and are blatantly flouting the ban order dated January 1, 2015 passed by them and upheld by this court".The AAP government in its affidavit filed through advocate Prabhsahay Kaur also said that on December 5, 2014 a female passenger was raped by the driver of a car which was booked through the petitioner Uber platform."The accused driver of the car has now been convicted by the trial court for rape. The said driver of Uber was known to be a habitual offender and was earlier accused for molestation and robbery."These facts vindicate the stand of answering respondent (Delhi government) that Uber do not apply a proper screening process for selection of drivers which eventually led in the culmination of such an unfortunate and dastardly incident, which could have been avoided had the petitioners applied for a license under the under the prescribed procedure," the affidavit said."The petitioners as well as other aggregator of taxis, and as a matter of fact any taxi operator, ought to be regulated in law to ensure the security and safety of the users of such platforms," it added.Government was responding to a court notice issued to them on October 13 last year seeking their replies on the petition of Uber, which runs an app-based taxi service in the national capital by using All India Tourist Permit (AITP) cabs running on diesel.Image credit: Indiatimes