Alarmed with the alleged rape of a woman by a cab driver in national capital, state police department initiated verification process of all taxi drivers and tenants.
``We have ordered all the district police chiefs to get verification of all the taxi drivers as well as tenants completed within a month”, confirmed Inspector General of Police (law and order), A Satish Ganesh while reacting on alleged rape of woman in a taxi. Talking to reporters here on Monday evening, Ganesh said that they made appeal in this regard on different intervals and request all the taxi owners or those lending their establishment or houses to anyone on rent etc, that they should get the verification completed. He said that it would not just help to check such crimes like the one committed in Delhi but would also facilitate the owners to get right person as driver or tenant.
The 32-year-old cabbie Shiv Kumar Yadav, was arrested on Sunday in his home town at Mathura for raping the woman. Yadav would not have been behind the wheel of the Uber
taxi had the US-based company run a background check and got police verification done as he had earlier been jailed too in a rape case.