A woman poses for photo during a launching ceremony of UBER taxi Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar May 11, 2017 REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Uber Technologies Inc chief executive officer Travis Kalanick and his deputy Emil Michael over the years entertained a peculiar theory: They suggested to colleagues that their Indian competitor may have framed Uber for a headline-grabbing rape in India, according to people familiar with the matter.
In early December 2014, an Uber driver took a woman to an isolated area and raped her, a Delhi court found. Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber driver, was convicted in October 2015 for rape and kidnapping. The case became a focal point for the debate over the safety of a new class of services provided by the San Francisco company. In late 2014, ride-hailing apps were temporarily banned in Delhi.
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