MLA Shailesh Parmar’s visibly over speeding car kills one

Update: The driver surrendered before police. A car involved in accident has been seized.

Ahmedabad: A speeding car of Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar hit and crushed to death a person on Honda Activa two-wheeler last evening in Memnagar area of Ahmedabad West. Members of family of victim claimed MLA Parmar’s son was driving car when accident happened. However Shailesh Parmar who was not reachable for media earlier in the morning later claimed that he was not in car and his driver was driving car. When asked, Parmar said his car involved in accident was missing and his driver was out of reach since accident. When police reached Parmar’s place 15 hours after accident, Parmar in his statement said his driver Devendra Bhavsar alias Lalabhai was driving car.

The incident took place on Monday evening outside the road of Gokul row house in Memnagar area. MLA’s visibly over speeding Toyota Innova car can be seen in CCTV footage hitting a Honda Activa two-wheeler. Victim was identified as Prafulbhai Patel (Swagat apartment in Satadhar area). Prafulbhai died of severe head and body injuries. Prabhulbhai was on way to bring his son back from a tuition class.

Ahmedabad city traffic police ‘A’ division police inspector PB Khambhla and staff sent Prafulbhai’s dead body for postmortem.

Parmar represents Danilimda(SC) assembly seat in Ahmedabad East.

DeshGujarat