The 26-year-old son of a Congress chief in Karnataka has been arrested over a hit-and-run incident in Udupi that resulted in a bike rider’s dying within the early hours of November 13, police stated.
Prajwal Shetty allegedly rammed his Thar into a bike ridden by Mohammed Hussain, a 39-year-old resident of Belapu village, round 5 am, when the sufferer was going to work. Shetty, who was returning house after dropping off a pal, fled from the scene together with his automobile.
A grievously injured Hussain was discovered on the accident spot on the Punchalakadu-Belapu street by locals who shifted him to a neighborhood hospital and later to KMC Manipal, the place he succumbed to accidents on November 14.
The Shirva police checked CCTV footage from the area and located the automobile to be a Thar belonging to Shetty, son of Belapu grama panchayat president Deviprasad Shetty.
The investigation following Shetty’s arrest and the seizure of the Thar revealed that the automobile was being pushed at a excessive velocity on the acute proper aspect of a slender street whereas the bike was coming in the wrong way.
“The accused fled the spot assuming that no person had witnessed the accident, however the automobile was traced on the premise of CCTV footage and the suspect was recognized the following day after the accident,” a police officer stated.
“After pulling down my son and injuring him, the driving force of the automobile didn’t cease to examine on him or inform a close-by police station in regards to the incident however drove away, resulting in his dying,” Hussain’s father Umarabba, a labourer, stated in his police criticism.
The police initially registered a case of grievous accidents and later transformed it to a case of deadly accidents attributable to an accident.
