CHENNAI: An 18-year-old in an Audi ran over a security guard at her apartment complex in Santhome on Wednesday night and went off to sleep. The next morning, questioned by police, the woman denied running over anyone and said she did see a man lying at the spot, but assumed he was asleep.
Police presented the woman, identified as Aparna, with CCTV camera evidence of her offence and charged her under IPC Section 304 A (causing death due to negligence). She was later released on bail.
Around 11.30pm, some residents of the complex on North Leith Castle Street were entering the building when they found the gate open. They went in search of night duty guard Sivaprakasam, 68, and found him in a pool of blood in the driveway leading to the basement parking lot where had been asleep. Soon, a team of the Foreshore Estate police arrived and sent the body for postmortem.
The team combed footage from CCTV cameras in the building and found an Audi run over him as he was asleep around 10pm. Investigation showed the Audi belonged to a real estate businessman in the same complex and that his daughter Aparna was at the wheel at the time.
On Thursday morning, Aparna told police she did not know she had run over someone, adding that after parking the car she saw a man covered with a blanket and assumed he was sleeping. “The woman told us she did not hear any cries,” said an investigating officer, adding that she possessed a valid driving licence. The woman was trying to climb an incline before entering the parking lot and the man may not have been visible as her car lights were switched off, the officer said.
Police are awaiting the postmortem report to ascertain if Sivaprakasam was drunk at the time. The officer said that Sivaprakasam, a resident of Mandaveli, was a retired government servant. Having been taken in on a sixmonth temporary basis at the complex, he had joined work only a week ago. He usually slept in the parking lots and many of the residents didn’t know of it, the officer said.
Police presented the woman, identified as Aparna, with CCTV camera evidence of her offence and charged her under IPC Section 304 A (causing death due to negligence). She was later released on bail.
Around 11.30pm, some residents of the complex on North Leith Castle Street were entering the building when they found the gate open. They went in search of night duty guard Sivaprakasam, 68, and found him in a pool of blood in the driveway leading to the basement parking lot where had been asleep. Soon, a team of the Foreshore Estate police arrived and sent the body for postmortem.
The team combed footage from CCTV cameras in the building and found an Audi run over him as he was asleep around 10pm. Investigation showed the Audi belonged to a real estate businessman in the same complex and that his daughter Aparna was at the wheel at the time.
On Thursday morning, Aparna told police she did not know she had run over someone, adding that after parking the car she saw a man covered with a blanket and assumed he was sleeping. “The woman told us she did not hear any cries,” said an investigating officer, adding that she possessed a valid driving licence. The woman was trying to climb an incline before entering the parking lot and the man may not have been visible as her car lights were switched off, the officer said.
Police are awaiting the postmortem report to ascertain if Sivaprakasam was drunk at the time. The officer said that Sivaprakasam, a resident of Mandaveli, was a retired government servant. Having been taken in on a sixmonth temporary basis at the complex, he had joined work only a week ago. He usually slept in the parking lots and many of the residents didn’t know of it, the officer said.
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