Bandra-Worli Sea Link accident: No bail for sea link pile-up accused Irfan Bilkiya

MUMBAI: A sessions court on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Irfan Bilkiya (40), arrested for allegedly causing the October 5 sea link pile-up, in which five people were killed and 13 left injured.
Recently, invoking the stringent charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder the police in its chargesheet reasoned that that he had allegedly ignored the reflector cones placed at the accident spot and the toll employees who were warning oncoming motorists with red coloured reflector batons and had eventually sped into them while speedily cutting from the second lane to the fourth lane.
Bilkiya denied that the case attracted the charge. The chargesheet said a report showed that Bilkiya was driving at an average speed of 109km. A communication exchanged between police and traffic police showed on the date of the incident no e-challan was issued to any vehicle on the sea link for crossing the speed limit of 80km. It said the ANPR camera was installed at a single spot on the sea link. The chargesheet said statements of eight victims could not be recorded as they were receiving medical treatment and were suffering from mental trauma.