A 20-year-old man driving a Mercedes-Benz car allegedly under the influence of alcohol ran over a 30-year-old woman in Bengaluru on Saturday, said the police.
The deceased was identified as Sandhya A S, a resident of Basaveshwara Nagar. The police arrested the accused, Dhanush, and placed him in judicial custody. He is the son of Parameshwar, who owns the private bus firm L V Travels. After hitting Sandhya, Dhanush allegedly also crashed into a biker named Syed Arbaz, 23, who also sustained injuries.
According to police sources, the accident took place around 6.45 pm near the Kengeri Traffic Transit Management Centre. Sandhya was crossing the road when Dhanush, who was driving a Mercedes-Benz AMG GLC43, knocked her down and then hit the bike which Syed Arbaz was riding, said the police.
Dhanush allegedly attempted to flee but the passersby caught him and found that he was under the influence of alcohol. A source said a test showed that he had 177 mg/100 ml of alcohol in his blood against the permissible limit of 30 mg/100 ml.
After the accident, Sandhya was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. Her family members alleged that the Kengeri traffic police were reluctant to register an FIR initially. Speaking to the media, her uncle Umesh said the FIR was registered only on Sunday around 3 am at the R R Nagar police station as the IT system in Kengeri traffic police station was down.
“I got to know about the accident only at 9.15 pm (on Saturday) as the police traced Sandhya through her Aadhaar card. She reached Kengeri by 6.30 pm in a Metro train to visit a shop in which she is a co-owner. We had to find an eyewitness. We requested one Puneeth, who witnessed the accident, to come to the police station, and the police filed the FIR based on his statement,” Umesh added.
The police filed a case under sections 185 (driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol) of the Motor Vehicles Act and 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 125(a) (endangering personal safety causing hurt) and 281 (rash driving) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
