Indian American Raped Victim Settled the Second Lawsuit Against Uber
The woman, who has been raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi in 2014, has been able to settle another lawsuit against the cab service provider in which the woman claimed that the company has forcefully kept her medical records and now using them to disgrace her. In the previous lawsuit, the woman alleged that the company took insufficient measure to ensure the safety of their passengers.
The convicted Uber driver Shiv Kumar is now serving the life-term imprisonment for raping the woman in New Delhi in 2014. Following the incident, the cab driver came in the light with a number of sexual assault cases with his name.
The Texas-based Indian American woman filed the second lawsuit against former CEO Travis Kalanick, former vice president in Asia Eric Alexander and former senior vice president Emil Michael. The woman filed the lawsuit against some former top-ranked officials in June, this year, but the case against Emil Michael was dismissed by the U.S District Court for Northern California in October.
The lawsuit was filed against the top-ranked Uber executives on the account of rape denialism that asked for if the victim was drunk, what was her attire at that time, if the victim knew the accused and etc. Following the incident that took place in 2014, Eric Alexander rushed to Delhi to obtain the medical records of the victim. Bringing the report in the U.S., Alexander shared them with other top-ranked executives. According to the lawsuit, the Uber executives then started contemplating that the woman might have made up the story with the collaboration of the driver Shiv Kumar to defame Uber’s business in India. In the lawsuit, the woman said that Uber officials had no medical background based on which they could review her medical records and come to that hypothesis.
