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The Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Vadakara, has directed an security institution to wage ₹1.15 crore arsenic compensation to nine-year-old Drishana, who has been successful a coma for astir a twelvemonth aft a devastating hit-and-run mishap astatine Chorod successful February 2024, pursuing which her grandma Puthalath Baby besides mislaid her life.
This ruling could supply a important fiscal lifeline for the ongoing, intensive aesculapian attraction for Drishana. The constabulary had identified the accused arsenic Methil Punathil Shajeel, a nonmigratory of Purameri. The conveyance progressive was traced to a achromatic Maruti Suzuki Swift with registration fig KL 18 R 1846. Shajeel was apprehended by the constabulary astatine the Coimbatore International Airport successful February 2025, though helium had reportedly fled to Dubai aft the incident.
The District Crime Branch submitted a chargesheet connected February 15, 2025, astatine the Vadakara Judicial First Class Magistrate Court. The transgression proceedings against the accused, Shajeel, are continuing successful the Vadakara court. Shajeel is presently retired connected bail, facing charges nether sections of the Indian Penal Code, including culpable homicide and causing grievous hurt.
The mishap had happened erstwhile Drishana and Baby were crossing the roadworthy aft alighting from a bus. A speeding car deed some of them, sidesplitting Baby connected the spot. Drishana, a Class 5 student, slipped into a coma aft suffering terrible caput injuries.
