Uber rape case: HC refuses bail

A bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta, however, admitted Yadav’s appeal challenging his conviction and sentence awarded by the trial court.

The trial court had on November 3 last year awarded the sentence to 33-year-old Yadav observing that his acts were against the society” and should be dealt with an “iron hand”.

During the hearing, the counsel appearing for Yadav told the bench that the sentence awarded to his client should be suspended and he should be granted bail during the pendency of appeal. 

His lawyer claimed there were improvements in the woman’s testimonies which was recorded by the police and the one recorded before a magistrate. 

Besides the jail term, the trial court had also imposed a fine of Rs 21,000 on Yadav who was convicted for the offences under sections 376(2) (m)(while committing rape causes grievous bodily harm or disfigures or endangers life of a woman), 366 (abducting with an intent to compel her for marriage), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 323 (causing hurt) of IPC. 

The incident had taken place on the night of December 5, 2014 when the victim, a finance executive working in Gurgaon, was heading back to her house at Inderlok in Central Delhi. The woman had said that the car was stopped at a secluded place and Yadav raped her and dropped her at her house.

Yadav was arrested on December 7, 2014 from Mathura and was in judicial custody since then.