Uber agrees to settle civil lawsuit with Indian woman

December 10, 2017 13:31

Uber has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit with an Indian woman who accused the ride-hailing company and its top executives of "unlawfully" obtaining her medical records and engaging in offensive conspiracy theories after a company driver raped her.

The 2014 incident in New Delhi had triggered scrutiny into Uber by the Indian government and the company was banned from operating in the national capital till June 2015.

The 26-year-old woman, identified only as Jane Doe in the lawsuit filed in federal court in California in June, had said in the complaint that Uber executives unlawfully obtained and shared her medical records from that vicious sexual assault.

The woman was living in Texas when she filed the lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed days after it emerged that Eric Alexander, the president of business in the Asia Pacific, had obtained medical records of the woman and had shown them to then Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick and the companys then-Senior Vice President for Business Emil Michael. The company later fired Alexander.

The lawsuit was settled in San Francisco where Uber has its headquarters, the BBC reported.

-- PTI

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