UBER APP MAY BE BLOCKED IF PLEA FOR LICENCE IS REJECTED

NEW DELHI: The Delhi transport department on Wednesday said it was consulting the Centre over blocking the IP address of Uber cab services, if their application for licence to run a taxi service was rejected.

A department official said they are still examining the application submitted by Uber to run cab services in the Capital.

The senior official said the San Fransisco-based company had submitted some more documents through its subsidiary Resource Expert India Pvt Ltd to support its application for registration under the radio taxi service and his team was examining them.

“We are trying to examine if the new set of documents submitted by Uber meet our requirements. We will be able to take a decision on its application in 3-4 days,” the official said.

The transport department had served a seven-day ultimatum to Uber to remove deficiencies in its application lest it is cancelled. Uber had failed to respond to two previous notices served by the transport department on the same issue.

“We can confirm that all details and documents have been submitted earlier this week for our application under the amended radio taxi scheme,” an Uber spokesperson said.

Meanwhile the Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the plea by the accused in the Uber cab rape case for recall of prosecution witnesses and directed the trial court not to pronounce its verdict till then.

Justice Sunita Gupta said the order will be passed on March 4 on the plea of accused Shiv Kumar Yadav, who allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman in December last year, after the court concluded hearing arguments of both sides. Yadav, through his lawyer DK Mishra had sought recall of the 28 prosecution witnesses on the ground that the earlier defence counsel was “incompetent”.