Officials of international taxi-booking service Uber will be questioned by police for the second consecutive day today in connection with the alleged rape of a 27-year-old finance company executive by its driver.

Meanwhile, the Centre has advised all states and Union Territories to ban all unregistered, internet-based cab booking services.

Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bass said, "Delhi police is looking into criminal liability of Uber Cab service."

Reacting to the incident, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said, "System of giving licenses to drivers is faulty, new digitalised system will be designed where everyone's track record can be viewed."

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He further added, "It doesn't make sense to ban transport services. If tomorrow something happens in the bus, then the bus services can't be banned. System needs to be changed. If there are improvements needed in a system they should be looked at."

Late on Monday, Delhi Police filed an FIR against Uber for alleged cheating even as earlier in the day, a senior Delhi Police official said "we may book the company under CrPc section 188 and other charges as criminal negligence and abetment to the crime have been made out against Uber".

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Uber cab rape: Lawyer for accused cries conspiracy

The lawyer for the accused in the recent Uber Cab rape case on Tuesday claimed that a conspiracy was being hatched against his client, but confirmed that the latter has been sent to a three-day police remand.

"My client has been booked under IPC 376, among other sections. I have not received a copy of the FIR as of now. A submission was given in court that he might indulge in evidence-tampering, due to which, he has been sent to a three-day police remand," Alok Dubey, the lawyer for the accused, told ANI. When asked about his client's arrest in 2011 for a similar crime, Dubey denied claims that his client was a serial offender.

"While it is true that he was arrested for rape in 2011, he was later acquitted with a clean character certificate," he said. "This is a conspiracy against my client. The police issued the certificate, and now, they are denying that the officer who signed it was posted at that station," he added.

Delhi Rape Case: Shocking details emerge during interrogation

Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber cab driver who allegedly raped a 27-year-old woman in Delhi on Friday, has revealed shocking details of the incident on Tuesday. During his interrogation, Shiv Kumar Yadav reportedly broke down and said, "After picking the victim from Vasant Vihar, I drove the car towards north Delhi. But when I saw her sleeping, I took a detour and parked my car near a garbage dump." Read more

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Delhi Police looking into criminal liability of Uber Cab service, says Commissioner BS Bassi.

Banning Uber not a solution, says Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari

Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday disagreed with the decision to ban Uber cab services in Delhi in the wake of the alleged rape of a 27-year -old woman in a taxi plying under it, saying such a move could not be a solution. "New developments are taking place in transport systems through electronics. Banning the railways for train accidents, buses for bus accidents and taxis is not correct," Gadkari said outside Parliament House here. Read more

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Previous details

A day after Yadav, 32, was arrested in Mathura, the Delhi government also blacklisted Uber from providing any transport service in the capital even as it emerged that Yadav had spent seven months in jail in a rape case in 2011. Yadav was acquitted in that case.

"The transport department has banned all activities related to providing of any transport service by www.Uber.Com with immediate effect. The department has also blacklisted the company from providing any transport service in the NCT of Delhi in future," the Delhi government said in a statement.

Yadav was today remanded in police custody for three days by a Delhi court. He will be in police custody till December 11. Police said Yadav needs to be interrogated for recovery of a mobile phone used by him.

Official sources said the Union Home Ministry is planning to ask all state governments and administration of nine union territories, where Uber runs its cab services, to put a ban on it.

Uber cab services are available in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Pune.

The rape case also brought to spotlight the laxity in enforcement of established norms governing the transport sector in the capital.

"He did not have the mandatory PSV badge that is issued by the state transport authority after getting a police verification. Uber did not bother to check that and hired him," said a police officer.

Yadav, who was driving the uber cab, allegedly raped the woman on Friday night when the victim, who works for a finance company in Gurgaon, was headed back to her home in north Delhi's Inderlok area.

The police said that during investigations prime facie it has emerged that criminal negligence was made out on the part of Uber as a number of alleged shortcomings were found on their part as neither the driver was verified nor there was a GPS tracking device in the car.

As per norms, it is mandatory for all private cab service providers to carry out a background check and obtain police verification of the drivers.

Meanwhile, the city witnessed protests at various places including outside Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence. Holding placards and chanting anti-government slogans, the protesters demanded better security for women and punishment for the driver.

(With agency inputs)