BMW Case: Bhasin may go the Nanda way

Utsav Bhasin has been booked under section 304 of IPC, similar to the one under which Sanjeev Nanda was convicted.

Utsav Bhasin, a 19-year-old man accused of killing a person with a BMW car, has been booked under a stringent legal provision — similar to the one under which Sanjeev Nanda was convicted, Delhi police told the High court on Tuesday.

The city police informed the court that it had imposed the stringent Section 304 of IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against Bhasin after the accident victim, succumbed to his injuries on September 12. An offence under this section is nonbailable.

“We have amended the FIR and have added Section 304 against the accused. Now it is for the trial court to decide under which section he is to be prosecuted,” counsel appearing for the city police submitted before Justice Veena Birbal.

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The court then asked the police to take appropriate action against the accused.

“You (Police) can always arrest him (Bhasin). It a non-bailable offence. The respondent (Bhasin) can approach the court for bail,” Justice Birbal said while asking the police and the accused to file their replies on the petition filed by Rajender Singh, the father of the deceased seeking cancellation of Bhasin’s bail granted by police.

Advocate Vinod Tyagi, appearing for Singh contended that the accused, who is a son of a Haryana industrialist, is trying to influence witnesses and pleaded that he should be restrained from moving out of Delhi.

Bhasin, however, refuted the allegation and said that he cannot fly out of the country as his passport has already been seized by the police.

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“I am not going to escape from the system and I would appear before the police whenever required by the investigating agency,” advocate Ramesh Gupta, appearing for Bhasin said.