Uber's India rape scandal accelerated Travis Kalanick's downfall: Report

Following the December 2014 rape of the female passenger by an Uber driver, authorities of several Indian cities banned ride-hailing services from operating

The downfall of Uber’s co-founder Travis Kalanick from the post of CEO was accelerated due to the revelations that a senior company executive had obtained medical records of a 26-year old female passenger who was raped by an Uber driver in Delhi in December 2014.

In June last year, ReCode and Bloomberg reported that Uber’s then president for Asia-Pacific, Eric Alexander, had illegally obtained and had carried medical records of the rape victim. This was done with the intention to prove that that the rape had been a setup by Uber’s biggest Indian rival Ola to undermine the US company.