A businesswoman in New Delhi has accused a taxi driver of rape after booking the cab using the popular Uber taxi app.
The driver, who was hired to drive the finance company employee back from a dinner on Friday, was arrested on Sunday.
The Delhi government claims it has banned all operations by the US taxi-booking service Uber claiming it failed to make adequate background checks.
"The transport department has banned all activities related to providing of any transport service by www.uber.com with immediate effect. The department has also blacklisted the company from providing any transport service in the NCT of Delhi in future," it said in a statement to The Times of India.
But Uber has said there are no defined rules in India on background checks for commercial transport licences and it was working with the government to address the issue.
"What happened over the weekend in New Delhi is horrific," Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive officer, said in a statement.
"We will do everything, I repeat, everything to help bring this perpetrator to justice. We will work with the government to establish clear background checks currently absent in their commercial transportation licensing programs."
