Utsav Bhasin, accused of ramming his BMW car into a motorcycle killing a man in 2008, may get life imprisonment. A Delhi court on Saturday framed charges against Bhasin under harsher penal provisions, which may attract life imprisonment as the maximum sentence.
“There are prima facie sufficient evidence to frame charges under sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 279 (driving rashly which could endanger human life) and 338 (causing grievous hurt) of the IPC,” additional sessions judge Pinki said.
Bhasin, the son of a Haryana-based industrialist, was driving his BMW car when he had allegedly hit the two-wheeler on Mool-chand flyover in south Delhi, killing Anuj Singh on September 11, 2008. A journalist of a TV channel was also injured in the incident.
The court rejected the plea of senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, counsel for Bhasin, that the accused he cannot be charged under section 304 of the IPC as he neither had the knowledge nor the intention to commit the alleged offence. The court has now fixed the matter on July 21 for recording of statements of prosecution witnesses.
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33-year-old arrested for rape, murder
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
With the arrest of 33-year-old man, the south district police on Saturday solved a rape and murder case of an 11-year-old girl. The FIR of the case was registered at the Fatehpur Beri police station.
Officers added that the girl, before going missing, had visited house of Jamal, who is victim’s neighbour in the Pahari Gali area of Fatehpur Beri. On interrogation, the accused confessed that girl visited his residence while his wife was away, the police said.
The police added that the Jamal took the girl to a near by jungle on pretext of some work and promised to give her Rs 20 for helping him with work. “After reaching there Jamal raped her and warned her of dire consequences. However, the girl said that she would reveal everything to her parents,” confessed Jamal in his interrogation. Jamal also confessed that he killed the girl out of fear that she would tell her parents about the incident. The girls body was dumped in a secluded area in the forest.