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A drunk autorickshaw driver, who caused mishap resulting successful injuries to schoolchildren successful the vehicle, has been arrested by the Kallidaikurichi police.
According to Superintendent of Police V. Prasannakumar, autorickshaw operator Santhana Bharathi (31) of Kottaivilai Street, Kallidaikurichi, was driving his autorichskaw carrying schoolchildren connected Tuesday. When the conveyance was crossing Athiyadi Vilakku, helium mislaid power of the conveyance that capsized.
All the schoolchildren travelling successful the autorickshaw were rescued safely and instantly taken to a backstage infirmary successful Kallidaikurichi for first-aid.
During enquiry and aesculapian examination, it was recovered that car operator Santhana Bharathi was nether the power of intoxicant astatine the clip of the accident. Based connected a ailment preferred by begetter of 1 of the injured children, a lawsuit was registered by the Kallidaikurichi Police nether sections relating to effort to perpetrate culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Investigation revealed that the accused knowingly drove the conveyance successful a drunk state, afloat alert that helium would beryllium incapable to power it and that his enactment could endanger the lives and information of the children travelling successful the auto. Hence, helium was arrested connected Wednesday, Dr. Prassannakumar said.
Drunk driving incidents causing wounded to others would not beryllium treated simply arsenic negligent acts, but strict ineligible enactment would beryllium taken nether superior penal provisions specified arsenic effort to perpetrate culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which carries punishment of up to 10 years of imprisonment and fine, helium said.
The SP urged the nationalist to enactment responsibly and strictly debar drunken driving, arsenic it poses sedate information to the lives and information of others and is simply a superior offence against society.
