Nooriya Haveliwala stepped out of jail on Sunday, over two months after her arrest on charges of driving drunk and being involved in an accident that left two men dead.She had been granted bail by a metropolitan magistrate’s court on Wednesday, with the police having failed to file a chargesheet within the stipulated 60 days. The accident had taken place in January; Haveliwala had driven her vehicle into a team of policemen, killing a policeman and a civilian and injuring several other policemen.
“The bail formalities were completed on Saturday night and on Sunday morning, her family came to receive her and she was released,” said Sudhir Kingre, the superintendent of Byculla jail.
The police had wanted Haveliwala charged under a section of the IPC that deals with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which could have attracted life imprisonment, but the court prima-facie agreed with the defence argument that the case could be tried only under Section 304 (II) that attracted a maximum punishment of 10 years.
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