The Bombay high court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the bail application filed by accused Nooriya Haveliwala who had allegedly rammed her Honda CRV into six people, killing two, including an on-duty traffic poilceman, in a drunken state in January.
The case had attracted wide media attention, and brought the issue of rising drunken driving death back into the limelight.
Haveliwala, in her bail application, has argued that at the most, she has committed an offence under section 304A of the Indian Penal Code (rash and negligent act resulting in death) and not under section 304 (culpabale homicide not amounting to murder). Section 304A is a bailable offence.
Haveliwala has also sought bail on the grounds that since she
is a female, and hence should be granted bail under section 437(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code which gives special status to a woman offender.
A sessions court had rejected her bail application last month.
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