Click to play videoNew Delhi: Allister Pereira, the son of a Mumbai businessman who was charged with running his car over seven people sleeping on a Mumbai pavement in suburban Bandra last year, was held guilty for causing death not amounting to culpable homicide.
The accident had killed seven pavement dwellers and seriously injured eight more. Pereira was driving the vehicle and was alleged to be under the influence of alcohol.
A local court found there was sufficient evidence to find 21-year-old Pereira guilty under sections 304 (a) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 337 (causing injury) of Indian Penal Code.
He had been sentenced to six months to jail for rash driving in the Carter Road hit and run case and fined Rs 500,000.
Just days after Pereira was sentenced to jail, the Bombay High Court has taken suo motu cognizance, of the Pereira case, which means that court has decided to take charge of case on its own.
The court has asked the state to furnish forensic and post-mortem reports. The case will come up for hearing on May 3.
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