Vadodara Crash Accused Was Not Drunk, Had Smoked Marijuana: Cops
Vadodara, Gujarat:
Rakshit Chaurasia, the accused within the Vadodara crash that left a lady lifeless and 7 others injured final month, was driving underneath the affect of medicine, police stated on Friday.
In keeping with the police, the first report of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Gandhinagar – that examined the accused’s blood pattern – revealed he was not drunk on the time of the incident however had smoked marijuana. Together with Chaurasia, the blood samples of his co-passenger Praanshu Chauhan and one other buddy who was within the automobile throughout the crash, Suresh Bharwad, have additionally examined optimistic for medication.
The medical report happened 20 days after the accident that despatched shockwaves throughout the nation.
Police have booked all three accused underneath the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and invoked Part 185 of the Motor Autos Act, 1988, in opposition to Chaurasia, which makes it a prison offence to drive inebriated or medication.
Whereas Chauhan has been arrested, Chaurasia is at the moment lodged on the Vadodara Central Jail. The third accused is on the run.
“We obtained the results of the three blood samples in the present day, which confirmed optimistic for medication. They have been driving the automobile after smoking marijuana. We now have arrested Rakshit Chaurasia’s co-passenger and the third accused will probably be arrested quickly,” Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 4, Panna Momaya stated.
On March 13, Chaurasia, a 23-year-old legislation scholar from Prayagraj, crashed the Volkswagen Virtus sedan he was driving into three automobiles, ensuing within the demise of 1 girl, Hemali Patel. The incident, captured on digicam, happened close to Amrapali Chaar Rasta in Karelibag, a busy intersection in Vadodara.
A video of the accused’s disturbing response had gone viral by which the accused, wearing a black T-shirt, repeatedly shouted: “One other spherical, one other spherical!” and “Om Namah Shivay!” (a non secular chant).
He was arrested a day later and charged with culpable murder not amounting to homicide.
The accused, who was learning on the Maharaja Sayajirao College of Baroda, earlier denied being drunk or rushing and attributed the crash to the automobile’s airbags.
“We have been overtaking a scooter and turned proper once we hit a pothole. The automobile touched one other automobile, and the airbag deployed, impairing my imaginative and prescient and inflicting the automobile to go uncontrolled…I used to be informed {that a} girl died and others have been injured. I wish to meet the victims’ households — it’s my fault,” he stated.
