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Sandalwood histrion Mayur Patel was booked for drunken driving and negligent driving aft allegedly causing a late-night multiple-vehicle mishap connected HAL Airport Road successful Bengaluru.
The mishap occurred astir 10 p.m. connected January 28 erstwhile Patel, who was astatine the wheel, allegedly rammed into a car that had halted astatine the postulation signal, adjacent the Command Hospital, from behind. The interaction triggered further collision involving 4 vehicles.
According to the police, 2 different cars were damaged successful the accident.
Patel was allegedly speeding astatine the clip of the accident.
Passers-by alerted the constabulary power room, pursuing which Halasuru Traffic Police rushed to the spot and took Patel to the constabulary station.
Police made him acquisition a test, the effect was recovered to beryllium positive, confirming that helium was nether the power of alcohol.
Police seized Patel’s car. On checking, they learnt that the conveyance did not person a valid security astatine the clip of the accident.
Based connected a ailment by Srinivas, a car owner, the constabulary registered an FIR against Patel astatine the Halasuru Traffic Police Station nether Section 281 (rash and negligent driving) of the BNS, and Section 185 (drunken driving) of the Motor Vehicles Act.
Srinivas, the complainant, claimed to person bought the car a fewer days agone aft pawning the jewels of his wife, and was moving arsenic a cab driver. He had not adjacent paid the archetypal EMI, and rued the imaginable nonaccomplishment of respective days of employment owed to the indispensable repair work.
