Mumbai: Jahnavi Gadkar, the lawyer who rammed her car into an oncoming taxi, killing two persons while driving on the wrong side of the road, has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and drunken driving.
Police filed the charges along with others under the Motor Vehicles Act in a 560-word chargesheet against the 35-year-old woman in a Mumbai court today.
The trial will take place in the Mumbai Sessions Court which had granted her bail after a Mumbai Magistrate's court turned down her pleas twice.
Tests showed that Ms Gadkar's blood samples had three times the permitted level of alcohol on the day of the accident. Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 30 mg of alcohol is the permissible limit for driving.
Speaking to NDTV in an exclusive interview soon after the accident, Sayed's UK based daughter, Nilofer had said, "She is a lawyer herself. She knows what she is doing. She knows the law. She thinks she can bend the rules. She thinks she go around the corners and get away with what she has done. It is shameful."
Police filed the charges along with others under the Motor Vehicles Act in a 560-word chargesheet against the 35-year-old woman in a Mumbai court today.
The trial will take place in the Mumbai Sessions Court which had granted her bail after a Mumbai Magistrate's court turned down her pleas twice.
Tests showed that Ms Gadkar's blood samples had three times the permitted level of alcohol on the day of the accident. Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 30 mg of alcohol is the permissible limit for driving.
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Speaking to NDTV in an exclusive interview soon after the accident, Sayed's UK based daughter, Nilofer had said, "She is a lawyer herself. She knows what she is doing. She knows the law. She thinks she can bend the rules. She thinks she go around the corners and get away with what she has done. It is shameful."
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