SHOCKING! Drunk driver kills lady in Vadodara, is that this much like Salman Khan’s hit-and-run case of 2002? – Firstpost

An inebriated driver killed one lady and injured a number of individuals after his automobile crashed into a number of automobiles in Vadodara. The deceased lady was Hemaliben Patel. The impression of the crash left three to 4 others significantly injured, together with Jaini (12), Nishaben (35), an unidentified 10-year-old girland an unidentified 40-year-old man.

Leena Patil, the Joint Commissioner of Police, has stated in an announcement that the motive force was intoxicated and was later taken into custody. Extra particulars concerning the case are but to be revealed.

Patil’s assertion read- “A 4-wheeler rammed right into a 2-wheeler and one lady died within the accident. The accused driver has been caught. Police are conducting additional probe… this can be a case of drunk driving,”

The Salman Khan hit-and-run case of 2002

Bollywood famous person Salman Khan was drunk and driving his SUV when it ran over individuals sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002, the Maharashtra authorities advised the Supreme Courtroom again in 2016 whereas looking for a reversal of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom verdict acquitting him.

However, terming the Excessive Courtroom verdict as “perverse”, “improper” and “full travesty of justice”, Lawyer Common Mukul Rohatgi, showing for the state, stated that Khan was driving the car and “introduction” of his driver because the particular person, who was behind the wheels, was an “afterthought” that got here to mild after 13 years of the incident.

Whereas acquitting Bollywood actor Salman Khan within the 2002 hit-and-run case, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom additionally absolved him from cost of leaving the accident spot with out offering support to the victims; this was in 2015.

In keeping with the prosecution, Khan fled from the spot after his SUV ran over individuals sleeping on footpath in suburban Bandra, killing one particular person and injuring 4, on 28 September, 2002.

Underneath Part 134, not solely the motive force however each particular person in command of a car which is concerned in an accident is duty-bound to provide medical help to the victims.

“Contemplating this argument (that folks armed with sticks, rods, and so on., had gathered) and the factual place that the circumstances had been such that with the intention to escape from the fury of mob and these circumstances had been past the management of the appellant, no such applicable steps had been taken to safe the medical support to the injured individuals,” the choose stated.