Another accident victim’s kin rues official apathy

The family of Dr Amit Diwan — who was mowed down by a speeding Tata Safari outside his house in October 2006 and had died a couple of months later — has blamed the police and the judiciary for allowing the accused to go scot-free two years after the incident.

The family of Dr Amit Diwan — who was mowed down by a speeding Tata Safari outside his house in October 2006 and had died a couple of months later — has blamed the police and the judiciary for allowing the accused to go scot-free two years after the incident.

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After the Gurgaon court acquitted the accused for want of evidence, the distraught father has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court hoping that he would get justice.

“My lawyers in the high court discouraged me from further filing the case saying there was little hope for justice in such cases due to weak laws,” said Dr Amit’s father, Dr BR Diwan.

Two key witnesses, including the main complainant in the case, had turned hostile giving the judge enough ground to acquit the youths.

Amit was parking his car outside his residence in Sector 10A in January 2006 when his vehicle had a close brush with the Tata Safari.

When Amit objected to the driver, the latter reversed his vehicle and ran it over him.

Amit caught the vehicle from the rear, but the youths sped and dragged him for nearly 100 metres.

The Indian Medical Association had mounted pressure on the police asking it to file an attempt to murder case, but the latter did not budge.

However, the police then filed a case and arrested the accused.

The family of Dr Diwan and the medical fraternity had also expressed their annoyance against the police for registering a case of road accident against the accused engineer.

The accused was granted bail on the next day of the incident.