Amid the national outrage over a teen running over two techies with his Porsche in Pune, a similar case has been reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur where a 15-year-old boy hit four people with his car on Tuesday. The teen, whose rash driving allegedly killed two deaths last October, was taken into custody and sent to a juvenile home on Wednesday, a day after the accident in Kanpur’s Barra.
According to a Hindustan Times report, the teen accused is the son of a prominent doctor in Kanpur. He was sent to a juvenile home and proceedings resumed against him in the six-month-old case. His father has been booked for both accidents.
Police said the teen was driving a car on Tuesday and hit four people, who sustained injuries. While the injured were administered first-aid treatment, the 15-year-old was slapped with IPC sections 279 and 338 (reckless driving).
Kanpur city commissioner Akhil Kumar criticised the teenager’s family for letting him drive again despite being involved in a fatal accident last year.
In October 2023, the teenager killed two people, Sagar Nishad and Ashish Ram Charan, after crashing his speeding car into them on the Ganga Barrage.
Additional commissioner of police (law & order) Harish Chandra said the teenager was previously charged under Section 304A (causing death of a person by an act of negligence not amounting to culpable homicide) of the Indian Penal Code. But this provision has been replaced with Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), he added.
On Sunday, a 17-year-old boy crashed his speeding Porsche into a motorbike causing the death of two 24-year-old techies on the spot. According to police, the teen was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.
The father of the accused was arrested in the case along with the owner and managers of the bar that served alcohol to the underage teen driver.
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