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Tathya Patel, the 19-year-old who allegedly ran a Jaguar speeding over a crowd of people at the scene of an accident on Ahmedabad’s Iskcon upper road on SG highway early Thursday, killing nine people, allegedly ran into Mahendra Thar at a cafe on Sindhu Bhavan Road (SBR) in the city’s upmarket neighborhood on Saturday. Western District Police (DCP) on Saturday 3rd July. owner in the July 3rd accident.
We are registering a case as per the complaint filed by the owner of the coffee shop. The police asked him why he did not report this earlier. If he had done so we would have written to the RTO (Regional Transport Office) to revoke his (Patel’s) driver’s license and file a case,” Desai added.
Video emerged on Saturday showing Thar, allegedly driven by Patel, crashing into the wall of a cafe in the SBR. “We will let you know everything that comes out in the investigation. If there are more videos of racing and stunts, we will let you know,” Desai told the media.
It added that Patel’s mobile phone had been seized and that he was being investigated by forensic experts.
Desai added that the police prepared a report recommending the cancellation of his driving licence, which will be sent to the Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Monday. Patil and his father Pragnesh, 44, are under arrest and in police remand they face charges of murder not amounting to murder, among other sections of the IPC.
The PSD director said the police questioned Patel and his five friends, who were with him in the Jaguar at the time of the accident, to “check where they went, what they met, what cafe they hung out in, what snacks they ate, and which route they took after that”.
“On the basis of the information provided by them…we are collecting CCTV camera footage of these roads…mobile phones used by friends will also be checked. We have to check if the phones they gave us are the ones they were actually using.”
Meanwhile, Desai said blood reports of Patel and his friends were “negative for drugs”. She added, “We will have a report in two days on the real-time reconstruction of the crime scene that we conducted with forensic experts.” Besides, the police also conducted a Jaguar brake test at the RTO on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the statements of eyewitnesses to the accident and the 13 people who were injured when they were hit by a Jaguar on the flyover were recorded. Desai said: “We also sent teams to record the statements of relatives of the dead who were from outside Ahmedabad.”
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