The state police on Saturday night arrested the main accused Sambia Sohrab who was behind the wheels of the car.
The state police on Saturday night arrested the main accused Sambia Sohrab who was behind the wheels of the car.
New Delhi:
Shahnawaz Khan alias Sanu, the key witness in the hit-and-run case that led to the death of IAF officer Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud during a rehearsal of Republic Day parade in Kolkata, has been arrested by the Special Task Force from Delhi last night.
The state police on Saturday night arrested the main accused Sambia Sohrab who was behind the wheels of the car. The development comes shortly after Kolkata Police confirmed that Sohrab, son of former RJD MLA Mohammed Sohrab, was driving the car.
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. He faced night-long interrogation in joint commissioner of police (crime) Debashish Boral’s chamber at Lalbazar, the city police headquarters.
The younger son of the Trinamul Congress leader Muhammad Sohrab initially did not cooperate during interrogation but later admitted he was driving the car, sources revealed. On Sunday afternoon, Sambia was produced at the court which was already turned into a fortress with the deployment of a heavy police force.
Sambia was booked on charges of Sections 302 (mu-rder), 307 (attempt to murder), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (destruction of evidence), 212 (harbouring the offender) and 427 (mischief causing damage) of the Indian Penal Code.
His lawyers prayed to the judge to grant him bail. They argued though the car belonged to Mussadi Business Pvt Ltd, with Sambia being one of its directors.
