MUMBAI: In what comes as a major embarrassment for the police establishment, a magistrate on Wednesday granted bail to Nooria Haveliwala in the sensational case of drunken driving. Nooria is accused of having killed a traffic policeman and a driver while speeding under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs on a deserted road at Marine Lines in the early hours of January 30.
After spending two months in Byculla jail, the 27-year-old US citizen and Colaba resident who worked as a beautician and drove a Honda CRV, will now be released. However, she is yet to come out of prison.
The magistrate granted bail on technical grounds, a day before the Bombay high court is set to hear her plea for bail on merit. Her lawyer Aabad Ponda convinced the court that the police had on Wednesday exhausted their 60-day deadline to file a chargesheet against her for an offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304(II) of the IPC, an offence which attracts ten years in jail.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment