Uber Technologies and a sweetheart who accused top executives of improperly obtaining her medical records after a public limited company driver raped her in India have agreed to settle a civil lawsuit the gal filed against Uber in June, according to a U.S. federal court categorizing on Friday.
The Uber driver was convicted of the rape, which occurred in Delhi in 2014, in a bad case in India. He was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison.
The Indian girl had previously settled a civil U.S. lawsuit against Uber in 2015, but beared the company again in a San Francisco federal court saying that anon after the incident, a U.S. Uber executive “met with Delhi police and intentionally obtained plaintiff’s hush-hush medical records.” Uber kept a copy of those records, the lawsuit rephrased.
The woman was living in the United States when she filed the lawsuit.
Articles of the settlement were not disclosed in the court document. A spokesman for San Francisco-based Uber declined to expansion. An attorney for the woman could not immediately be reached for comment.
The settlement arrives as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the top job in August, is seeking to put several scandals behind the friends following eight years of CEO Travis Kalanick’s pugnacious leadership, which led to rule-breaking almost the world.
The lawsuit cited several media reports that said Kalanick and others mistrusted the victim’s account of her ordeal.
“Uber executives duplicitously and publicly decried the despoliation, expressing sympathy for plaintiff, and shock and regret at the violent attack, while privately speculating, as curious as it is, that she had colluded with a rival company to harm Uber’s subject,” the lawsuit said.
A source with knowledge of the matter previously have an effected Reuters that Kalanick had told other Uber executives he supposed the incident had been staged by Indian ride-services rival Ola.
In a prior asseveration, while Kalanick was CEO, Uber said: “No one should have to go through a horrific knowledge like this, and we’re truly sorry that she’s had to relive it.”
A spokesman for Kalanick was not closely available for comment on Friday.
Uber’s actions have led to a criminal scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice of whether managers violated U.S. bribery laws, specifically the Tramontane Corrupt Practices Act, the company said in June.
The Justice Department did not say on what wilderness or countries the investigation centered on. Bloomberg said it focused on activity in at small five Asian countries. Uber has also notified U.S. authorities there payments made by Uber staff to police officers in Indonesia, a ourselves familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Uber previously rated law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP to investigate how it obtained the medical records of the deflowering victim, Reuters reported in June.