Mob Vandalises Car After It Hits 3 Pedestrians In Nagpur: Watch
The police detained three youths and the driver of the car who were sent for medical examination while a case was also registered.
A mob in Maharashtra's Nagpur vandalised a car after it hit three persons, including a child, in the Zenda Chowk area under the Kotwali police limits on Friday evening. The police have detained three youths and the car driver in connection with the incident and liquor bottles and narcotics have also been seized from the car.
A case has been registered and the accused have been sent for medical examination, Gorakh Bhamre, DCP, Nagpur Police said.
"A woman, her child and another person were injured after a speeding car hit them around 8:30 pm at Zenda Chowk area of Kotwali Police Station," Bhamre said.
#WATCH | Maharashtra: People vandalised the speeding car that hit and injured 3 people at the Zenda Chowk area in Nagpur (24/05) https://t.co/jWOzXUu4wn pic.twitter.com/mVcswMWCUI
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"People caught one of the accused. Police detained 3 youths and the car driver in connection with the case. Liquor bottles and narcotic substances were seized from the car. Medical tests of the accused being conducted and a case is being registered," he added.
The incident comes close to heels of the Pune incident where a 17-year-old boy crashed his Porsche into two IT professionals who died on the spot.
Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar on Friday said that attempt was made by the accused's family to establish that the the driver employed by his family was behind the wheel at the time of the incident.
“We have the CCTV footage of him (juvenile) drinking liquor in the pub.....He was fully in his senses, he had full knowledge that due to his conduct, such an accident, where IPC section 304 is applicable, can happen,” Kumar said. Section 304 deals with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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