AHMEDABAD: A day after a woman was killed and three others of her family — her husband and two children — were injured after they were run over by a speeding car, the cops on Wednesday junked the claims of the accused, Parv Shah, that he was being chased by police personnel in a private vehicle. They also said that no other car driver was racing with the accused.
Shah, 22, a resident of Mithakhali, who works for a private firm and also works for the women’s clothing business of his father, Shailesh Shah. He allegedly mowed down the footpath dwellers in the Bimanagar area near Shivranjnai Crossroads in the wee hours of Tuesday.
DCP, city traffic, Tejas Patel said the cops identified another car driver, who was said to be racing with Shah, and found that he did not know anything about the matter.
“The other car driver, who was driving a sedan captured on CCTV footage, was identified and was called to the N division traffic police station for his statement. We came to know after questioning him that he had nothing to do with the accident,” said Patel.
Patel added, “Shah was responsible for the accident, which is why we have now booked him under IPC Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). The other driver was speeding because the roads were deserted, and it was night. They were not racing.”
On why the other driver, whose identity has been concealed by the cops, was not booked for a breach of curfew, Patel said, “He had gone out due to some urgent and work with a proper reason.”
About what the urgent work was, Patel said, “He must have given the reason to the officer concerned and I do not not know it.”
The investigating officer of the case and in-charge PSI of N division traffic police, B B Vaghela said Shah was returning from a relative’s home in Thaltej, drove negligently and ran over Satu Bhabhor, 38, her husband Babu Bhabhor, 40,and their children, Vikram, 7, and Jetan, 5.
Satu died on the spot and the other three suffered severe injuries.
