The Delhi Police will now reconstruct the sequence of events and also take the driver on the route he had taken to drop the victim. Shiv Kumar Yadav, the accused reportedly narrated the route that he took to ferry the victim and then he raped her near a garbage dump at the Najafgarh drain. The accused confessed to have started around 10.58 pm when the victim boarded the cab from Vasant Vihar area. The driver then moved towards RK Puram Block-I then drove towards Moti Bagh then went towards Delhi Cantonment area. He took the road towards Naraina Village moving towards Mayapuri, Rajouri Garden, Moti Nagar, Punjabi Bagh, Tri Nagar and Daya Basti. The police officials will also procure CCTV footage of the cameras deployed on the route to build a watertight case against the accused.
He then parked his car near a garbage dump at the Najafgarh drain where he sexually assaulted her. Then he finally dropped her at Sarai Rohilla and fled. DCP, North Madhur Verma said that the rape spot has been identified. Police teams visited the spot to lift evidence.
The victim made a PCR call at 1.30am following which the police officials reached the spot. The girl was taken for a medical examination and counselled by an NGO.
The accused driver during his interrogation first tried to mislead the police officers and stated that it was a consensual intercourse. After sustained interrogation he confessed to the crime said a police officer. A forensic team is conducting the examination of the car to lift circumstantial evidence. The car was driven by the accused while he was fleeing to Mathura where he later abandoned it (car). Yadav told police that he took the National Highway-II towards Faridabad-Palwal. In order to evade arrest and avoid being captured on CCTV cameras, he took a village route and bypassed the toll on the highway. He then stopped at a petrol pump in Hodal to refuel and then drove towards Kosi to reach Mathura.
Yadav who is married to his own sister-in-law had purchased a new mobile phone and SIM card in Mathura and was in touch with them through that. “He told his wife that he had a fight with someone and they were planning to implicate him in a false rape case. He also told her to pack her clothes and that he would be back to pick her up and shift base from Delhi. The three mobile phones and SIM card used by him including the one which had the Uber application installed have been seized,” said an official privy to the investigation. It may be noted that the SIM cards procured by him were issued on fake identity cards and the police will also rope in the mobile operating company and take action against them for such lapse. The driver fled to Mathura and resided there in Dholi Pyau area. He was planning to flee to Nepal and other border areas.
His driving licence number — UP-85-20120017810 — was issued on September 18, 2012. Sources revealed that his date of birth mentioned on the certificate is in the year 1987 and the address mentioned on the licence is 18 Chandra Puri, Narholi, Mathura. His driving licence is also being verified by the police and the address mentioned on his registration certificate is in Devli, Ambedkar Nagar. The police officials are verifying both the addresses to ascertain his antecedents. Interrogation of the accused revealed that in 2011 he was accused of raping a bar dancer who had hired a cab from Gurgaon. Yadav was to drop her to Kishangarh but midway in Mehrauli area he raped her inside the cab.