Justice Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal extended the bail till September 7 on the same terms and conditions of the trial court
The Delhi High court on Friday extended the bail of 2008 hit and run convict Utsav Bhasin granted by a sessions court. Justice Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal extended the bail till September 7 on the same terms and conditions of the trial court.
Appearing for Bhasin, his counsel, senior advocate Siddharth Luthra said that they have already given a cheque of Rs 35 lakh to the deceased's family after they said that they do not want to take the case further.
However, the court noted that nothing as such has been submitted in the court or has been put on record in the court.
"No such submission was given in the court and neither has anything as such taken on record," the court observed. Following this, the advocate Luthra said they would like to take the statement given by the deceased's family on record.
Meanwhile, Mrigank Shrivastava, the injured in the case, was offered a cheque of Rs 2 lakh as directed by the trial court. However, his counsel Pankaj Shrivastava, refused to take the amount stating that he would need to consult his client before accepting the cheque.
Speaking to DNA, Mrigank said that he would file an appeal for the enhancement of the amount.
"I did not accept the amount because I would file an appeal for the enhancement of the compensation given to me. I have suffered a lot, both physically and mentally and this amount would not be sufficient to match the money which I have spent in the last so many years," he said.
The sessions court had on July 15 sent Bhasin to two years in jail, for mowing down the motorcyclist with his over-speeding BMW car in 2008 while observing that cow killers get more stringent punishment than errant drivers.
"Sentence for killing cow is five or seven or 14 years in different states but in case of death of a human being caused by rash or negligent driving, sentence prescribed in law is only 2 years," Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar had said.
The court had also granted him a statutory bail for enabling him to file an appeal in the high court and asked him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 50,000 with a surety of like amount.
The court had while convicting him dropped the charges of 304(II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC.
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