CHENNAI: A joyride in an Audi car to celebrate a friend’s joining party, landed a woman techie in prison on Saturday, after the vehicle killed a 45-year old carpenter near Taramani signal on Rajiv Gandhi Salai here. The car with three women, who police alleged were found drunk, driving towards Thuraipakkam knocked down Munusamy, (45), a resident of Kamarajar Nagar, Tiruvanmiyur, who was waiting to cross the road around 4.30 am.
Munusamy was tossed in the air for about 15 ft and died instantly. His colleagues standing across the road chased the car for quite some distance and forcedthe woman driver to stop the vehicle near SRP Tools junction with the help of another van which was going on the same route. A police patrol vehicle passing by took the woman to a nearby police station for further investigation besides alerting the jurisdictional Guindy traffic investigation wing.
Aishwarya, (26), resident of Chetpet, working in an IT firm in DLF IT Park at Porur, was identified as driving the vehicle, and other two were identified as Sonia Jain, and Sushma. Of the latter two, one is a techie while the other is pursuing her Ph.D. The women were out for a joyride after attending a friend’s joining party when the mishap occurred. They were booked under 304 A (causing death by negligence) and 279 (rash driving) IPC and Aishwarya was remanded to judicial custody. The complaint was lodged by Saravanan, who was just metres away from Munusamy when the accident occurred. The deceased is survived by his son, Anandan (16), daughter, Divya,(11) and wife Govindammal. He is the breadwinner.
