Drunk student arrested for crashing luxury car, attempting to run over traffic constable in Gachibowli

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A 24-year-old pupil was arrested connected Sunday aft crashing his luxury car into different conveyance and aboriginal attempting to fly by accelerating towards a postulation constable successful Gachibowli portion driving nether the power of alcohol.

The accused, Gurrampati Tarun, a nonmigratory of Narsingi, was taken into custody by the Gachibowli constabulary successful transportation with 2 abstracted cases registered pursuing the incident. The achromatic Mercedes-Benz car bearing registration fig TS 07 EX 5556 was seized, and the accused was produced earlier the magistrate.

According to the police, the archetypal ailment was lodged astatine astir 12.30 p.m. by Rahul Kamaraju, stating that helium was driving from Narsingi towards Kukatpally erstwhile the Mercedes allegedly rammed his car from down astatine Nanakramguda. The interaction caused him to suffer power of the conveyance and clang into the footpath divider, damaging his vehicle. The offending car past fled towards the Outer Ring Road astatine Gachibowli. A postulation Home Guard alerted the power country done a wireless connection astir the fleeing vehicle, pursuing which a lawsuit was booked.

In a 2nd ailment received astatine astir 2 p.m., postulation constable E. Narsimhulu of Gachibowli Traffic Police reported that helium was connected work astatine the IIIT Junction erstwhile helium received instructions via wireless to intercept the aforesaid conveyance progressive successful the Nanakramguda accident.

At astir 10.50 a.m., upon spotting the car, helium signalled the operator to stop. The conveyance initially slowed down but past allegedly accelerated abruptly towards the constable, causing him to autumn onto the bonnet. Despite being alert that the constable was connected the bonnet, the operator continued to thrust successful a rash manner, endangering his life, constabulary said. The conveyance was yet brought to a halt aft different motorists intervened and blocked its path.

CCTV footage collected by the constabulary reportedly shows the accused driving recklessly portion the constable was connected the bonnet. A drunk driving trial conducted thereafter revealed a humor intoxicant attraction of 160 mg per 100 ml, importantly supra the permissible bounds nether the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

Further probe is underway.

Published - March 01, 2026 10:00 p.m. IST

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