MUMBAI: The Bombay excessive court docket on Tuesday issued discover to the police on a petition filed by the husband of the girl killed within the Worli hit-and-run case of July 2024, alleging that the police investigation recommended bias and negligence.
Mihir Shah (HT)
A bench of justice Revati Mohite-Dere and justice Dr. Neela Gokhale posted the petition for additional listening to on January 21.
The plea filed by Pradeep Nakhwa, the husband of the sufferer, Kaveri Nakhwa, 45, claimed that the police didn’t cost Mihir Shah, one of many accused within the case, for homicide, regardless of there being clear proof of Shah’s data of the deadly penalties of his motion.
“They ran over us with their car and then dragged my wife for a long distance, eventually running the car over her and brutally killing her,” Nakhwa stated, whereas talking to HT on why he approached the court docket.
“Six months have passed but there is no sense of justice. People come and console us, but no one can understand our pain. She was a breadwinner for the family,” he added.
Within the early hours of July 7, an inebriated Mihir Shah, son of a former Shinde Sena chief, Rajesh Shah, and his pal Rajrishi hit a pair on a scooter at Worli Sea Face, together with his rushing BMW. Whereas the person, Pradeep Nakhwa, landed on the BMW’s bonnet, his spouse Kaveri received trapped between a entrance wheel and the bumper of the automobile. As Shah stored driving at breakneck velocity, Nakhwa was thrown off the automobile. Kaveri was dragged for over two kilometres until the car broke down.
The plea alleged that whereas dragging and operating over Kaveri, Shah was conscious of the deadly penalties of his actions and, therefore, though the police have charged Shah with culpable murder not amounting to homicide, rash driving, and different offences, a cost of homicide must be added towards Shah and Bidawat.
“The accused’s actions, dragging the victim despite her being visibly trapped under the vehicle, demonstrate deliberate and inhumane conduct, justifying the inclusion of the section 103 (murder). The autopsy report confirmed that the cause of Kaveri’s death was shock and haemorrhage caused by multiple severe abrasions, consistent with brutal dragging and collision,” the plea filed by Nakhawa, by means of advocate Dileep Satale, acknowledged.
The excessive court docket had earlier dismissed a plea filed by Shah and Bidawat, questioning their arrest within the case and in search of launch on bail on that floor, prompting Shah to method the Supreme Courtroom in enchantment. He, nonetheless, filed an everyday bail plea after the apex court docket expressed its disinclination to grant him aid.