Hyderabad : A 21-year-old son of a Rajya Sabha MP has been booked after an Aston Martin he was allegedly driving at high speed struck and killed a 26-year-old retail worker outside Hyderabad’s Inorbit Mall. Lingamaneni Sanjush, son of Jana Sena Party MP and businessman Lingamaneni Ramesh, was allegedly behind the wheel of the luxury car when it hit Bharathi Mukhi on August 16.
Madhapur Assistant Commissioner of Police Ch Sridhar said the offence registered against him is bailable and carries a maximum punishment of less than seven years. Madhapur Assistant Commissioner of Police Ch Sridhar said the offence registered against him is bailable and carries a maximum punishment of less than seven years. “As the road accident negligence case punishment is below seven years, it is bailable. There is no arrest in the case. We have served notices to the accused,” Sridhar said.
Police allege the Aston Martin, bearing registration number TG-09-G-0666, was being driven at high speed and in a rash and negligent manner when it struck her. The impact left Bharathi with a severe bleeding injury to her head.
She was taken to Apollo Hospital in the same Aston Martin involved in the crash, according to the FIR, but was declared dead at the hospital. Sanjush is the son of Lingamaneni Ramesh, a Rajya Sabha member from the Jana Sena Party headed by Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan.
He studied computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas, according to information cited by the Times of India. The Aston Martin involved in the fatal crash is not registered in Sanjush’s name. Police records cited in the case show that the vehicle is owned by Honor Prime Housing LLP. Investigators are examining the circumstances in which Sanjush came to be driving the vehicle. Police registered a case under Section 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which covers causing death by a rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide.
Police said that because the offence is bailable and the punishment is below seven years, Sanjush has not been arrested and was instead served notices. ACP Sridhar rejected suggestions of shortcomings in the police handling of the case, saying: “There is no lacuna in police reporting in the case.”The investigation is continuing into the speed and circumstances of the crash and the sequence of events leading to Bharathi’s death.
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