The daughter of a Rajya Sabha MP ran over a man sleeping on a footpath with her BMW in Chennai on Monday night. While the man succumbed to his injuries soon after, the woman got bail.
The fresh high-profile case of hit-and-run comes within a month after the Pune Porsche accident, where two 24-year-old techies from Madhya Pradesh died after the speeding car, allegedly driven by a 17-and-a-half-year-old boy in an inebriated state, hit their motorcycle at Pune’s Kalyani Nagar junction around 2:30 am on May 19.
According to a report on NDTV, YSR Congress Party Rajya Sabha MP Beeda Masthan Rao’s daughter Madhuri was driving the BMW accompanied by her female friend and ran over the car over Surya, a 24-year-old painter, who was sleeping on the footpath in Chennai’s Besant Nagar in a drunk state.
Officials told NDTV that Madhuri fled the scene almost immediately, but her friend stayed back and argued with people who had gathered after the accident. She left the spot after a while. Some people rushed Surya to a nearby hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.
According to reports, Surya had married only eight months ago. Relatives and residents from his colony gathered at the J-5 Shastri Nagar Police Station, demanding action.
Upon reviewing the CCTV footage, the police discovered that the car involved was owned by the BMR (Beeda Masthan Rao) Group and registered in Puducherry. Madhuri was arrested but received bail at the police station. Rao, who became a Rajya Sabha MP in 2022 and has also served as an MLA, is affiliated with the BMR Group, a prominent name in the seafood industry.
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