Delhi hit-and-run case: Juvenile Justice board denies bail to 'repeat offender'

In the past, the teenager was found driving in a rash and negligent way, causing a road accident with another vehicle.

The 17-year-old Class 12 student, who was accused of killing a man in Delhi with his father's Mercedes was denied bail by the Juvenile Justice Board on Tuesday, calling him a repeat offender.

The Class 12 student had appealed before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) after he surrendered to the police and sent to a remand home on Sunday.

The teen, who turned 18 four days after the accident, was said to be speeding at 80 km/hour when he hit marketing consultant Siddharth Sharma near Ludlow Castle School in North Delhi’s Civil Lines area.

Earlier, the police stated that during investigation it emerged that it was not the first offence of rash and negligent driving by this accused juvenile. In the past too he was found driving in a rash and negligent way, thereby causing a road accident with another vehicle.

Last year, the minor was also challaned thrice — for overspeeding in April and June and wrong parking in February. The father of the juvenile, arrested under the charge of abetment to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, was on Saturday produced at the court which sent him to one-day police remand, DCP (North) Madhur Verma said.