The second accused in the Kolkata hit-and-run case was arrested from Delhi’s Alipur early Monday morning in a joint operation of Delhi and Kolkata police.
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“These types of incidences are taking place because of government’s indulgence”.
Breaking police barricades, Sambia, son of former RJD legislator Mohammad Sohrab, knocked down 21-year-old Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud, who was supervising Republic Day parade rehearsals at the Indira Gandhi Sarani on January 13.
It took more than three days for the police to track down the culprit.
Last Wednesday, during a drill in the run-up to the Republic Day, an Audi charged into the cordoned-off area and when the corporal tried to stop the vehicle near the south gate of the Fort William, he was fatally run over by the speeding auto. “We have nothing to do with them and have never had anything to do with them”, the party said. He has described Mohamad Sohrab as a “minor Trinamool activist” and emphasised that he had been elected to the assembly in 2006 as a Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate, supported by the Left.
Mohammad Sohrab and his younger son Ambiya have been missing since the accident. “There’s a complete breakdown of law and order”, said Roopa, indicating that Sohrab’s connection with TMC is linked with the delay in arrest, according to a report in The Telegraph, Calcutta.
The court directed Kolkata Police to produce Shanu before a magisterial court there on January 20.
Sohrab, main accused in the Red Road hit-and-run case, was remanded to two weeks’ police custody by the Bankshall Court even as the possibility of his surrender to the police became prominent. Police on Thursday issued a look out notice against Sambia, his brother and father. During his interrogation, Sambia had denied that he was behind the wheels of the Audi, a Kolkata Police official said.
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The calculation was that Sohrab, who recorded substantial increase in influence and wealth and reportedly indulged both his sons’ fast-car fetish, was not important enough for TMC to spend political capital on, especially in election season.
