Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav sent to police custody, says ‘I made a mistake, what do I do?’

NEW DELHI: The Uber cab driver suspected of raping a 27-year-old woman in south Delhi on Friday night has reportedly confessed to the crime before the police on Monday

According to Times Now, the suspect Shiv Kumar Yadav told the investigation officer, "Mujhse galti ho gayi, main kya karoon? (I made a mistake, what do I do?)"

On Monday, metropolitan magistrate Ambika Singh sent 32-year-old suspect in police custody till December 11 after the police said he was required to be interrogated for recovery of a mobile phone used by him.

Yadav refused to undergo test identification parade (TIP), a process under the criminal law through which a victim identifies a suspect.

Yadav, who was arrested from Mathura, which is 160km from New Delhi, in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday by a joint team of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police, was produced before the jam-packed court with his face muffled amid tight security.

During the hearing, the police sought his custodial interrogation contending that he was required to be questioned to unearth the entire chain of events which led to the incident. The mobile phone, which he was using, also had to be recovered at his instance, it said.

The police said that Yadav was a repeat offender and had spent seven months in jail in an another rape case which was filed against him in south Delhi's Mehrauli area in 2011.

It said that the accused has claimed that he was later on acquitted in the rape case.