Uber agrees to settle case filed by Indian rape victim

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/New York/ Uber Technologies and an Indian woman who had accused its top executives of improperly obtaining her medical records after a company driver raped her have agreed to settle a civil US lawsuit.

When contacted, Uber confirmed the filing which says a settlement has been reached between all defendants and Uber expects the case to be dismissed in January. Terms of the settlement were, however, not disclosed.

In 2014, the Indian woman was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi. She had filed a lawsuit earlier and later “voluntarily” withdrew it.

In June this year, she filed another case against the ride-hailing company and its embattled CEO Travis Kalanick for “unlawfully” obtaining her medical records and engaging in offensive conspiracy theories about the brutal incident.

The woman, identified only as Jane Doe in the 18-page lawsuit filed in the federal court in California, said Uber has taken startup culture, in which “fierceness” and “always be hustling” are prioritised above people to a new extreme, “perpetuating rape culture and violating all bounds of decency as to customer privacy”.