Just in: Life sentence for Uber cabbie Shiv Kumar Yadav convicted of raping a 25-year-old passenger. The crime led to widespread protests and ban on taxi aggregators in the national capital.

Additional sessions judge Kaveri Baweja, who had convicted 32-year-old Yadav last month, gave Yadav a life term.

The court had on October 20 held Yadav guilty of kidnapping, threatening, raping and trying to strangulate his passenger. The offence of endangering womans life while raping her entails a minimum of 10 years rigorous imprisonment and a maximum of life term.

In its 99-page judgment, the special fast track court set up to deal with cases of sexual offences against women has said that the victim was reminded of the horrific December 16, 2012 gang rape incident after the driver of the US-based service provider had threatened to insert an iron rod in her body.

The court has held that threat perception was very much real in the mind of the 25-year-old victim when the driver had intimated and threatened her that too at an isolated spot in the late hours on December 5, 2014.