Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Bombay High Court has rejected Alistair Pereira’a bail plea.
The 21-year-old businessman was pronounced guilty in the Carter road hit-and-run case in Mumbai. He's been sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment.
Pereira had rammed his Toyota Corolla into pavement dwellers at Bandra killing seven labourers.
The court had deferred the hearing on Pereira's bail application after enhancing his jail term to three years from six months awarded by a sessions court for crushing to death with his car on November 12 last year the workers who were sleeping on a pavement in sub-urban Bandra in Mumbai.
Pereira had surrendered to the police on Wednesday on the direction of the court. He was later taken to the Arthur Road jail.
The High Court had also upheld a fine of Rs 5 lakh imposed on him by the Sessions court in its verdict on April 13 this year.
(With agency inputs)
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