MUMBAI: The city police will seek legal opinion to decide on challenging the order granting bail to a senior executive of a leading corporate group involved in a drunk driving case in which a three and a half year old girl was killed.
Vishwas Attavar (54) was speeding down a wrong lane in the BKC when his vehicle rammed into another car on Tuesday evening, killing the minor girl and injuring her uncle and driver.
Attavar was granted conditional bail on Wednesday, and has to appear before the BKC police whenever called for questioning. He has been asked to submit his passport to the police. Joint Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) Satyanarayan Chaudhary said they are waiting for the bail order in the Attavar case to take legal opinion before deciding further course of action. “Legal expert advice will be sought before proceeding to appeal against the bail order,” said Chaudhary.
Meanwhile, grandparents and family members of the three-and-a-half-year-old girl are upset that the court has granted him bail. A police officer said, “His blood samples have been sent for chemical analysis and will be part of the chargesheet. The CCTV images show Attavar driving at high speed in the wrong lane. Statements of witnesses have been recorded which said that an auto-rickshaw driver suffered minor injury on his hand while the minor died on the spot, her uncle is in the ICU and the car driver Vinod Yadav is in hospital.”
On Thursday, the victim’s uncle Om was shifted to another hospital for better treatment. “We have already spent Rs 86,000 on medical bills for Om, whose condition is serious. I have been borrowing money from my relatives and friends to clear the bills. I lost my grandchild because of a drunk driver. Despite being financially weak, I am planning to hire a lawyer who will keep a track of the case and will advise us,” Swati’s grandfather Jagnarayan Choudhary told TOI.