Footage of the incident showed the SUV zipping past a Air Force personnel practising for the drill on January 13.
Sambia Sohrab, son of local politician, who allegedly ran over an Indian Air Force personnel during the Republic Day practice parade in Kolkata last week, has been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy.
Sambia - who was
arrested last night and was produced in court today - had breached multiple police barricades on the city's arterial Red Road before running over and killing 21-year-old Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud around 6:30 am on January 13. He has been remanded to 14 days in police custody.
Two of his friends, Johnnie and Sonu, have purportedly told police the 26-year-old was with them just before the accident and was driving his Audi SUV under the influence of alcohol. Asked not to drive when drunk, Sambia got into a fight with Sonu and then drove off alone.
He, along with his father Mohammad Sohrab, reported to be a Trinamool member,
and brother Ambia, had been untraceable since. The Trinamool has distanced itself from Mohammed Sohrab, a former Rashtriya Janata Dal legislator, saying he was a "small-time activist".
The car was ditched by the driver after the incident and number plates purportedly removed.
Since Thursday, the police raided at least 15 places in search of them. Sambia was arrested at around 11.15 pm last night when he was heading for his in-laws' house, senior police officer Debasish Boral said.
Sources said Sambia was trying to escape to neighbouring states and was constantly changing his hiding places since the accident.
Trinamool Congress Parliamentarian Derek O' Brien had denied the Sohrabs were linked to his party. "It was a reckless demon of a driver. Neither the driver nor his father is related to TMC. The law of the land will punish the culprit soon," he told news agency ANI.