Cyrus Mistry accident: Driver booked for rash driving

By PTI

PALGHAR: Two months after former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry died in a automobile accident, police in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on Saturday registered a case in opposition to Dr Anahita Pandole for alleged rash driving.

A case beneath Indian Penal Code sections 304(A) (inflicting demise by rash and negligent act), 279 (rash driving on a public highway), 337 (inflicting demise by act endangering life and private security of others) apart from the Motor Vehicles Act at Kasa police station, officers mentioned.

Mistry (54) and his pal Jahangir Pandole died in a automobile crash on a bridge on the Surya river on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad freeway within the Palghar district adjoining Mumbai on September 4, 2022.

They have been driving within the again seat of the Mercedes automobile.

Anahita Pandole, a Mumbai gynaecologist who was driving the automobile, and her husband Darius Pandole who was sitting subsequent to her, have been significantly injured.

During the investigation, witnesses have been questioned and studies have been obtained from the Regional Transport Office and Mercedes Benz India Pune mentioned a police launch right here.

“Based on the reports and probe it has been established that the accident was the result of rash and negligent driving,” and therefore a case was registered in opposition to Dr Anahita Pandole, it added.

A police official had claimed on Friday that Darius Pandole (60) informed police in his assertion that his spouse Dr Anahita couldn’t merge the car into the second lane from the third lane of the highway that turned slender close to the Surya river bridge.

Darius Pandole was discharged from a Mumbai hospital final week.

“In his statement, Darius Pandole said his wife Anahita was driving the Mercedes-Benz car when they were on their way to Mumbai. A car which was ahead of their vehicle went to the second lane from the third and Anahita also tried to follow the same,” the official mentioned.

When she tried to take the automobile to the second lane, she discovered that there was a truck on the fitting aspect (within the second lane) on account of which she was not in a position to merge into that lane, he mentioned, including the lane turned slender close to the bridge.

The assertion of Anahita Pandole was but to be recorded as she was nonetheless recovering, police had mentioned.

PALGHAR: Two months after former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry died in a automobile accident, police in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on Saturday registered a case in opposition to Dr Anahita Pandole for alleged rash driving.

A case beneath Indian Penal Code sections 304(A) (inflicting demise by rash and negligent act), 279 (rash driving on a public highway), 337 (inflicting demise by act endangering life and private security of others) apart from the Motor Vehicles Act at Kasa police station, officers mentioned.

Mistry (54) and his pal Jahangir Pandole died in a automobile crash on a bridge on the Surya river on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad freeway within the Palghar district adjoining Mumbai on September 4, 2022.

They have been driving within the again seat of the Mercedes automobile.

Anahita Pandole, a Mumbai gynaecologist who was driving the automobile, and her husband Darius Pandole who was sitting subsequent to her, have been significantly injured.

During the investigation, witnesses have been questioned and studies have been obtained from the Regional Transport Office and Mercedes Benz India Pune mentioned a police launch right here.

“Based on the reports and probe it has been established that the accident was the result of rash and negligent driving,” and therefore a case was registered in opposition to Dr Anahita Pandole, it added.

A police official had claimed on Friday that Darius Pandole (60) informed police in his assertion that his spouse Dr Anahita couldn’t merge the car into the second lane from the third lane of the highway that turned slender close to the Surya river bridge.

Darius Pandole was discharged from a Mumbai hospital final week.

“In his statement, Darius Pandole said his wife Anahita was driving the Mercedes-Benz car when they were on their way to Mumbai. A car which was ahead of their vehicle went to the second lane from the third and Anahita also tried to follow the same,” the official mentioned.

When she tried to take the automobile to the second lane, she discovered that there was a truck on the fitting aspect (within the second lane) on account of which she was not in a position to merge into that lane, he mentioned, including the lane turned slender close to the bridge.

The assertion of Anahita Pandole was but to be recorded as she was nonetheless recovering, police had mentioned.