MELBOURNE, July 19: The 25-year-old Indian taxi driver, extradited on charges of raping an Australian woman passenger, had fled the country on a one-way ticket to India after committing the crime, a court was told today.
Jaswinder Singh Mutta, the first Indian to be extradited to Victoria, is facing two counts of rape charges and one of indecent assault.
Mutta appeared in a Victoria court where it was heard that the cabbie fled to India on a one way ticket after allegedly raping his passenger.
He left Melbourne on a Thai Airways flight on February 6, 2010 after buying his one way ticket.
In opposing Mutta’s bail application in a Magistrates Court, senior investigative official, Shane Jenkins, unfolded the incident and informed that the alleged victim, who was 26 had met two girlfriends for dinner on January 17, 2010, and had been drinking wine throughout the night.
According to a report in ‘The Age’ newspaper, Jenkins told the court that the victim hailed Mutta’s taxi and asked him to take her home.
Jenkins said the woman vomited in the back of the taxi and Mutta told her she would have to clean it up.
Mutta drove her home and waited as she went to
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