Reckless Driving and Intimidation.
A 17 year old son of a (I wish I used that word here) rich businessman drove his father’s unregistered spanking new Porsche car. He drove without a license at 150kmph on city roads.
He was intoxicated with alcohol — note that the legal drinking age in the state of crime is 25 years.
He hit a young couple travelling on their motor cycle, sending them flying off and resulting them to hit hard objects — another car and road.
The couple was killed instantly.
The young brat hit another parked car and came to a halt. Realized after all airbags had deployed in his half a million dollar Porsche Taycan. Got out of the car and tried to run away.
The local people immediately gathered and thrashed the brat, before handing him to the police.
Then starts a long list of manipulating, suppressing of evidence, attempts to clear the brat of any wrong doing etc. The aftermath of this gruesome rash driving accident reeks of a corrupt system in which the officials can be bought by money / favors and justice can be denied to the victims.
The police instead of immediately taking a blood test of the 17 year old brat, ordered pizza and burger for him and added soft drinks. They also provided him with a place to sleep until the Juvenile court starts operating.
The incident happened 2 hours past midnight. The blood test was done at 11pm which is exactly 8 hours past the episode. Fully to make sure the bloody brat goes scott-free.
Neither did the police try to take a statement from the 17 year old. Indian law allows the minor to give a statement after consulting a lawyer or parent. Which obviously the police did not insist, and neither was any statement given.
The police failed to report the accident and the deaths to the central command of the city police. As per standard operating procedures and by law the police must report any accident, death or altercation happened in their police station limits without delay to the central command.
The commissioner of police himself learned the news of the incident from social media, he never got informed by the regular procedure.
Then comes the corrupt Juvenile Court Judge in the scene. With clear pressure from the rich father of brat, the judge gave a shocking judgement within a matter of 30 minutes.
“Write an essay of 300 words on the consequences of rash driving and accidents.”
That was all. The brat was free to go home within 14 hours of killing two innocent people. Bail was granted on a measly amount and with conditions which are easy to be skipped, just free to go without pressing charges. Not a single charge was pressed.
This was so shocking that it lit a fire on social media and even main stream media.
According to Indian laws if an under aged offspring is found driving without license then his or her parents are directly responsible and they will be slapped with certain sections of the law.
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The rich father, knowing this, absconded by switching off his cell phone. He borrowed two cell phones from his friends and kept running from one city to another. He also deliberately misguided the search teams by sending his cars to different cities with its drivers. All this was going on and he was in touch with the corrupt police, juvenile judge to pull off some “under the table” deal in order to release his son.
The thing did not stop here. He called the local law maker and asked him to pressurize the police into releasing his son by falsely telling the police that the family driver had been behind the wheel at the time of accident and not the 17 year old.
When the chief minister of the state learned this he immediately passed orders to evaluate each and every one involved in the case and slapped charges of dereliction of duty on two senior police officers. These officers obviously did not follow the protocol of taking an immediate blood test for alcohol content and did not report the incident to the central command of police.
Meanwhile the grandfather of the boy also was involved in outright intimidation and manipulation. This old guy kidnapped the driver and kept him confined in the family house. He kept pressuring him to own up the blame of being involved in the accident. The boy’s family gave a statement that the driver has accepted the blame and ready to confess. But the driver under tremendous pressure still refused to relent. Driver’s wife got suspicious of her missing husband. She put up a missing person complaint at the police station. From known sources she came to know her husband was confined by the grandfather of the boy. She takes the police to the boy’s home and releases her husband. The driver tells the police he was confined against his will and was forced to accept the crime of the boy by cash favors from the family. The police arrested the grand father and remand him for wrongful confinement of the driver.
Another police team apprehend the absconding father who was running from city to city. He is remanded using section 304A.
After the intervention of the CM of the state the minor boy was arrested and remanded to jail for 15 days in the juvenile jail. His bail was cancelled and stupid brat’s honeymoon is over, at least for now.
Then entered the corrupt, insensitive doctors of the government hospital. These buggers were involved in tampering with the blood samples, one of the doctor switched the blood to some clean blood and declared there is zero trace of alcohol in it. Thanks to the push from the state government these corrupt doctors are remanded for tampering the evidence and trying to mislead the courts.
Just imagine the level of manipulation — only to save the useless brat! He would not do anything great in his life but Indian hypocrisy only compels parents of such contemptuous kids to cover up their crimes and keep their “record” clean.
One can still imagine the family must have greased the palms in the juvenile detention center to provide a 5 star treatment for their son. This is a very common thing as people don’t work for passion or self respect, rather only for money.
According to Indian laws a person — adult or otherwise involved in an accident that causes death of one or more people is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
There is another law in which if a minor is above 16 years of age and is involved in a gruesome rape or murder then the courts can allow the minor to be tried as an adult. However for this the discretion of the judge is final. And the judges are completely disconnected with the sentiments of the common man, because they are the most wasted people who get huge entitlements, yearly 2 months of holidays. Most judges hardly care to uphold the law, rather they keep things slow, give bail at the drop of the hat and never come to completion of cases. India has a notorious record of huge number of pending cases. Numbering above 50 million. Just imagine the apathy that has snuck in the judiciary. Criminal negligence to keep the cases pending and deny justice to the victims.
The complete episode of rash driving, intimidation and manipulation reeks heavily of a defunct law system. A system with rampant low level corruption, a system with insensitive judge who allows the perpetrator free to go home after writing an essay, even ignoring the boy is involved in deaths of two innocent people.
If the boy is tried as an adult and if the sentence is minimum then he gets 2 years prison. If the sentence is maximum he gets 10 years prison.
He will be barred from getting a driving license until the age of 25.
This is ridiculous as it hardly mattered for the boy to respect the rule in the first place when he was driving without the license and resulted in death of two people in a gruesome way.
The arrogance of the family to manipulate the law at will exposed the system in the hands of rank corrupt officials and a bloody toothless judiciary. There is no fear of the judiciary as long as they have money to throw. They will still manipulate the things going forward.
This senseless killing has cast raging response from the public. The judges were castrated by social media. They were openly called corrupt and selfish.
What is a fitting punishment for such crimes?
The perpetrator must be sent to jail for 150 years. This number is calculated by the remaining age (75+75) which the young couple would have lived. Considering they both were 25 years old.
Then the father of the boy must pay the remaining income of both dead (the income the couple would’ve earned had they lived) to the families of each of the dead. This will ensure justice is done in some respect.
The father must go to jail for 17 years as he gave permission to his underage son to drive the car at that age.
This is my wishful thinking.
The likely outcome is the boy will be released for lack of evidence and the father will make an inside deal with the parents of the dead and close the matter.
The brat will be out in the road hunting for his next victims.
At the max the driver will be made the “fall guy.” He will be bribed with big amount of money, non tangible assets and asked to own up the crime. If the driver does not own up his life is in danger and will be “killed” in an accident with a mask of drunken driving or hit and run kind of episode.
The whole system is devoid of any compassion. People would hardly care to bring in any change here because they are busy making ends meet. Plus the threat of police and courts keep them away from getting involved. In the coming days there would be definitely news of how eye witnesses turned hostile and how the driver grew a “honest horn” and came up to own the crime.
Very very screwed up we are with a compromised law and order and corrupt courts, adding toothless laws to start with.
I wish things were different. But they aren’t and they are exactly like what I described.
