Drunk senior executive in wrong lane rams into vehicles at BKC, kills girl & hurts 2

MUMBAI: In a case of drunk driving, the president (chairman's office) of a leading corporate group, Vishwas Attavar (54), allegedly speeding down a wrong lane in the Bandra-Kurla Complex in his European-make hatchback, rammed into another car on Tuesday evening, killing a three-and-a-half-year-old girl and injuring her uncle and the driver.
Attavar first hit an autorickshaw, a tempo and a pedestrian before hitting the car near a traffic signal barely metres away from the BKC police station, said police.

Attavar was arrested from the spot, said DCP (zone VIII) Dikshit Gedam. He has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other sections of the IPC and Motor Vehicles Act. Attavar got bail on Wednesday.
Want harsh punishment for drunk driver: Victim's father
After a drunk Vishwas Attavar, 54, president (chairman's office) of a leading corporate group, rammed into multiple vehicles while allegedly speeding down the wrong lane in BKC on Tuesday, Swati Choudhary, a three-and-half-year old girl, died on the spot, her uncle Om Choudhary (25) sustained serious injuries to his neck and the driver of the car, Vinod Yadav (46), suffered a hairline ribcage fracture. The uncle and is in the ICU at Guru Nanak Hospital. Police are trying to locate the rickshaw-driver and pedestrian as eyewitnesses told the cops that they too were injured.
The girl's father had got her to Mumbai four months ago from Bihar so that she could join kindergarten classes here from June.
Yadav told TOI he was driving through the area in his office car to pick up senior personnel at around 4.45pm on Tuesday when he saw his friend Om, who works as a driver with him, on the streets with his niece Swati. Choudhary was on his way to his family's home in Siddharth Nagar in BKC and asked Yadav to drop him and his niece. "When I took a right turn at Nabard junction to head to Kherwadi, the car in the wrong lane collided with our vehicle. Due to the impact, Swati's face hit the dashboard. Cops got us to hospital in an unconscious state," said Yadav.
Locals thrashed Attavar before 3 beat marshals -- constables Rakesh Madiwal, Nishant Pujari and Samadhan Wagh -- rushed to the spot and detained him. Another police team - of assistant sub-inspector Satyajeet Virnodkar, head constable Bhagyashri Sutar and Sangeeta Jadhav -- rushed the girl to Asian Heart Institute, but doctors declared her brought dead. "Attavar was charged with drunk driving after presence of alcohol was detected in his blood," said an officer at BKC police station.
The accused was produced before Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday and released on a bail surety of Rs 50,000. Magistrate N A Sirosiya granted bail based on Attarva's lawyer's argument on an earlier SC judgment related to an IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) case.
Police said eyewitnesses had informed them that the accused was driving in the wrong lane. There was a co-passenger in the car who also asked him to slow down, police quoted the eyewitnesses as saying. It is not clear who the co-passenger was. The girl's father Gourishankar said he wants harsh punishment for the accused. Swati has a younger sister, who lives with her mother in Bihar. Swati was staying with her father, grandparents, and two uncles and was studying in an Anganwadi (play school).