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Uber rape accused claims threat to life, gets security in jail

Hindustan Times | ByAvantika Mehta, New Delhi
Jan 18, 2015 09:47 AM IST

A Delhi court has ordered special protection for Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber cabbie accused of raping a Gurgaon executive, after he claimed that his cellmates in Tihar Jail were threatening to kill him and that one of the inmates even came up to him brandishing a knife.

A Delhi court has ordered special protection for Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber cabbie accused of raping a Gurgaon executive, after he claimed that his cellmates in Tihar Jail were threatening to kill him and that one of the inmates even came up to him brandishing a knife.

Yadav is not the first rape accused to raise the issue of safety in jails. Vinay Sharma, an accused in the brutal 16/12 Delhi gang-rape, had claimed in April 2013 that his cellmates had broken his right hand. A month later Ram Singh, another accused in the case, was found hanging in his cell. There were suspicions it was not a suicide. Both were lodged in Tihar.

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Taking note of Yadav’s handwritten plea, additional sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja ordered that the accused should be provided a special enclosure in the custody van that ferries him to and fro from jail. Inspector Atul of Delhi Armed Police 3rd battalion, in-charge of transporting Yadav, said the accused has not specified who is threatening him.

Jail authorities couldn’t confirm if the 32-year-old Mathura resident had been in any scuffle with fellow inmates but did say that men accused of crimes against women are ostracised by other prisoners.

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“We try and ward off physical hostility between inmates but there’s a psychological aspect. The prison is largely filled with men who have wives and sisters … rapists are regarded in a bad light in prison,” Tihar public relations office Mukesh Prasad told the Hindustan Times.

Saturday was the fourth day of hearing in the high-profile case.

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