NEW DELHI: The Delhi police on Saturday interrogated the owner of the Mercedes whose minor son allegedly knocked dead a 33-year-old youth with the vehicle in north Delhi’s Civil Lines area after a city court remanded him to its custody.
The probe took a new turn as the police is probing whether the accused is an adult or a minor as stated earlier. The police will also confiscate his passport.
The police is seeking advice on asking for the minor’s remand too as the charges have been changed from Section 304 A (causing death by negligence), which is bailable, to Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), which is non-bailable.
The step was taken due to past record of negligent driving by the minor who is learnt to have turned 18 on Friday.
Juvenile a repeat offender
While interrogating the Mercedes driver’s father on Saturday, Police said during investigation it emerged that it was not the first offence of rash and negligent driving by this accused juvenile. In the past too he was found driving in a rash and negligent way, thereby causing a road accident with another vehicle.
Last year, the minor was also challaned thrice — for overspeeding in April and June and wrong parking in February. The father of the juvenile, arrested under the charge of abetment to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, was on Saturday produced at the court which sent him to one-day police remand, DCP (North) Madhur Verma said.
The businessman will be confronted with a range of questions, mostly surrounding the mystery regarding the man who approached police on the day of the incident, claiming to be his driver, and took responsibility of the act but later retracted.
