Khaitan & Co partner Joyjyoti Misra will become the new India general counsel (GC) of global taxi 2.0 giant Uber, after the former Uber India GC Mohit Abraham moved to San Francisco in July to become legal director for regulatory and the Americas.

The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to give more time to taxi operators in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch from diesel to the cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG). The deadline for the change, which has been extended twice, is Saturday. A number of cab operators and their associations ...

The city government has informed the Delhi high court that it was taking strict action against app-based taxi aggregators, including Ola and Uber, for allegedly overcharging and arbitrarily applying surge rates during the odd-even traffic scheme. Filing an affidavit before Justice JR Midha, the Delh...

Uber Technologies general counsel (GC) Salle Yoo and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas regional managing partner Pallavi Shroff reflected on their journey as women in the legal profession, at NLU Delhi on Thursday. NLUD was hosting a Townhall question and answer (Q&A) session titled UberDIALOGUES, on the launch of its annual three-day cultural fest Kairos.

The Delhi high court today asked the app-based cab service provider Uber to apprise it of the number of the new diesel taxis it has added to its fleet after court’s order that no diesel-based cabs will be included by taxi service providers. “File an affidavit with respect to new diesel taxis you hav...

The Delhi high court on Friday directed app-based cab service provider Uber to file an affidavit giving details of the diesel cabs it has phased out within the national capital. Justice Manmohan, who remarked that there was no “phasing out of diesel-based cabs by Uber”, also asked the firm to also p...

Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav who raped a woman executive on 5 December last year was awarded life imprisonment till death by a court here on Tuesday. Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja pronounced the order. Yadav was convicted last month on charges of rape, causing grievous bodily harm and ...

Taxi aggregators Uber and Ola cabs plan to get licenses to comply with latest government guidelines reported the Economic Times . Since the two start-ups are not governed by the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 or any of the state acts on vehicles, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways last week releas...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday allowed app-based cab service providers to run diesel-run taxis for point-to-point transportation here, provided they shift from diesel to CNG by 1 March, 2016. Justice Manmohan on the request of Uber India granted time to app-based companies to shift from diesel-ba...

The Delhi high court on Tuesday made it clear that it will allow to only CNG-based taxi vehicles to run in the national capital and asked Uber India to inform when it can replace the diesel cabs with these.

The Supreme Court has said that the Delhi high court decision to allow the recall and re-examination of witnesses including the victim in Uber cab rape case was not justified as it resulted not only in delay but also harassment of witnesses. “The court has to keep in mind not only the need for givin...

The city government on Tuesday told the Delhi high court that it has modified the Radio Taxi Scheme and is coming up with new specific scheme in 10 days for radio taxis which will include mandatory installation of GPS devices and a panic button. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday set aside the state government’s order rejecting an application of the US-based Uber taxi service for a licence to ply in the national capital, with Uber represented by senior counsel Rajiv Nayar and long-time litigation adviser Khaitan & Co. Justice Manmohan a...

Khaitan & Co associate partner in the Delhi litigation team, Mohit Abraham, will join taxi aggregator Uber to head up its Indian legal function as its legal director India.

While refusing to offer an interim relief to the US-based Uber taxi service to ply on the city’s roads, the Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government. Justice Mukta Gupta issued notice to Delhi government and police while hearing a plea of the taxi company challenging the r...

“New Delhi authorities on Wednesday asked India’s federal information technology ministry to block the taxi-hailing apps of US -based Uber and its local rival Ola in the city in a bid to enforce a ban on the companies’ services,” reported Reuters . However, QZ reported last year that blocking of ser...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday “partly allowed” the plea of Uber cab rape accused Shiv Kumar Yadav to recall some of the prosecution witnesses for further cross-examination. Justice Sunita Gupta passed the order on Yadav’s plea challenging the trial court’s February 18 order denying him permissio...

Rape-accused Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav Monday moved an application in a Delhi court seeking to recall some prosecution witnesses in the case for further cross examination. Yadav’s defence counsel Dharmender Mishra told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that the lawyer who was previously...

The Uber cab driver accused of sexual assaulting a woman executive Tuesday told a Delhi court yesterday that he has not committed rape and he has been falsely implicated in the case. Claiming innocence in the case, Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that it...

The woman who was allegedly raped in a Delhi Uber cab by its driver, has now sued the San Francisco tech company valued at $40bn for unspecified damages in a US federal court for having “had advanced knowledge of the unfitness of Yadav [the driver], and employed him with a conscious disregard of the...