Forged character certificate used by driver to get job with Uber
9 Dec 2014 12:46 AM GMT
Delhi Police Commissioner, BS Bassi announced that the character certificate was forged and an inquiry was ordered, which is to be headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (south-east).
The ‘fake’ document — which was supposedly released from the pad of the Additional Commissioner (south east) and bearing the signature of the Additional Deputy Commissioner (south east) — certified that Shiv Kumar Yadav (the accused), resident of a locality in Ambedkar Nagar, was not involved in any criminal offence as per police records. Also, the allegedly fake document was issued on May 14, 2014, but the officer whose signature can be seen on it, HL Hrangcha, was transferred out of Delhi in 2013.
Soon after Yadav (32) was arrested from Mathura and brought to Delhi, it emerged that he was earlier an accused in the rape case of a 22-year-old pub employee registered at south Delhi’s Mehrauli police station in December 2011. He spent around seven months in jail after which before he was acquitted, said a source.
With this, it also came to light that Uber – operating in a so-called unique app-based scheme and not just like any other radio taxi – had not got these documents verified by the police. In this regard, the police are also probing the role of transport department officials, said a senior police official seeking
anonymity.
However, the police refused to comment for the time being when asked about the ‘access’ to such documents – both by means of an insider’s role in making these documents available to people or the probability of these documents being sold openly in the market.
“If the document proves to be fake, a separate FIR shall be registered in this regard,” said Rajan Bhagat, PRO of Delhi Police.
On Monday afternoon, Yadav was produced before a city court, which allowed Delhi Police to interrogate him for three more days. Police also told the court that they could not yet recover the mobile phone by which Yadav had called up the woman later to intimidate her.
The ‘fake’ document — which was supposedly released from the pad of the Additional Commissioner (south east) and bearing the signature of the Additional Deputy Commissioner (south east) — certified that Shiv Kumar Yadav (the accused), resident of a locality in Ambedkar Nagar, was not involved in any criminal offence as per police records. Also, the allegedly fake document was issued on May 14, 2014, but the officer whose signature can be seen on it, HL Hrangcha, was transferred out of Delhi in 2013.
Soon after Yadav (32) was arrested from Mathura and brought to Delhi, it emerged that he was earlier an accused in the rape case of a 22-year-old pub employee registered at south Delhi’s Mehrauli police station in December 2011. He spent around seven months in jail after which before he was acquitted, said a source.
With this, it also came to light that Uber – operating in a so-called unique app-based scheme and not just like any other radio taxi – had not got these documents verified by the police. In this regard, the police are also probing the role of transport department officials, said a senior police official seeking
anonymity.
However, the police refused to comment for the time being when asked about the ‘access’ to such documents – both by means of an insider’s role in making these documents available to people or the probability of these documents being sold openly in the market.
“If the document proves to be fake, a separate FIR shall be registered in this regard,” said Rajan Bhagat, PRO of Delhi Police.
On Monday afternoon, Yadav was produced before a city court, which allowed Delhi Police to interrogate him for three more days. Police also told the court that they could not yet recover the mobile phone by which Yadav had called up the woman later to intimidate her.
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