16-Year-Old Son Of Government Official Rams BMW Into Scooter To "Settle Score" In Nashik

A 16-year-old boy driving a BMW car hit a scooter from the rear side, seriously injuring its two occupants in Nashik city of Maharashtra, a fallout of a past dispute between the trio, police said on Tuesday. The under-age car driver, booked for attempt to murder among other charges, fled the spot after the accident, which took place in the Gangapur Road area of the city on Saturday (January 24), but was tracked on the basis of CCTV footage, detained and later sent to a remand home, they said. Citing preliminary reports, police said the teenager is the son of a government official. The injured scooter riders are two friends, both in their teens. As per a complaint lodged by one of them, he and his friend were passing through the Gangapur Road area when the 16-year-old boy chased them in his high-end car and hit their scooter hard from behind with the motive to kill them.