The father of the juvenile accused in the hit-an-run case has been given bail on a personal bail bond of Rs 1 lakh by a Delhi court on Sunday. The accused's bail plea has been rejected and he has been sent to a juvenile justice officer.
The Delhi Police on Saturday interrogated the Mercedes owner whose minor son allegedly knocked dead a 32-year-old man with the vehicle in north Delhi's Civil Lines area after a city court remanded him in its custody.
The man, arrested under the charge of abetment to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, was produced at the court yesterday which sent him to one-day police remand, DCP (North) Madhur Verma said.
The businessman was confronted with a range of questions, mostly surrounding the mystery regarding the man who approached police on the day of the incident, claiming to be his driver, and took responsibility of the act but later retracted.
More charges can be slapped on him depending upon the disclosures during interrogation, an official privy to the investigation said.
Meanwhile, the investigating officer of the case was also changed yesterday after the victim Siddharth Sharma's sister met Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma and urged him to take strict action against the perpetrators.
Police are seeking legal counselling about going to a court and asking for the minor's remand too as the charge in the case has been changed from IPC Section 304 A (causing death by negligence), which is bailable, to Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), which is non bailable.
The step was taken in view of the past record of negligent driving by the minor who is learnt to have turned 18 years yesterday.
