Advocate Janhavi Gadkar, who crashed her Audi Q3 car into a taxi in Mumbai late on Monday night, has been remanded in judicial custody till June 26. She has filed a bail plea that will be heard on June 15.
The police had asked for her custody for two more days, claiming their investigations were not complete and they wished to check if she had visited the Irish pub that night and consumed more liquor. But the defence argued that she had not been given proper medical treatment in police custody despite being injured.
The police's argument is that she was so intoxicated that she does not remember where she took the wrong lane. "If she was intoxicated how could she tell them? There is a contradiction in their statement," argued defence counsel. "If remand is required merely to verify her statement, there should be judicial custody."
Sources told NDTV that Ms Gadkar had visited a second pub on Monday night to meet an executive and it is suspected that she had consumed more alcohol there. The police are examining the CCTV footage from the pub, whose waiters are also to be questioned.
Tests showed Ms Gadkar's blood samples had three times the permitted level of alcohol on the day of the accident. Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 30 mg of alcohol is the permissible limit for driving.
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