Click to play videoNew Delhi: BMW hit and run accused Utsav Bhasin will now be charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 304 (A), causing death due to rash and negligent driving which is a bailable offence and can get him a maximum punishment upto two years.
The Delhi Police on Friday had arrested Utsav Bhasin, suspected to be behind the wheel of the BMW that ran over two people on Thursday morning. A case of rash and negligent driving had been registered against him.
Bhasin was arrested from the Kashmiri Gate area of the Capital and has been taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for tests.
After hitting the men, a panicky Bhasin broke open the window panes of the car, to escape as the vehicle got locked from inside, police an eyewitness as saying.
They abandoned the BMW – bearing a VIP number plate - at a petrol station 300 m from the accident spot and fled in another car.
Twenty-year-old Bhasin is a resident of Punjabi Bagh and an alumnus of a prominent Delhi school while the girl traveling with him is a class XII student at the same school.
Bhasin's father is an industrialist based out of Bahadurgarh in Haryana and is presently in China on a business tour.
The car bears a VIP registration number from Haryana, a police official said.
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