Girl killed after car driven by minor boy hits her in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur

COIMBATORE: A 12-year-old girl was killed after a car driven by a 15-year-old boy, a class X student, hit her in Tirupur on Monday.
The boy's father was also booked for allowing his minor son to drive the car.
Nallur Police said, "A Aathinarayanan, 40, a native of Ranganathapuram in Theni district, was running a mess at Kovilvazhi on Dharapuram road in Tirupur city. He was residing with his wife Gomathi, 40 and three daughters Bakyasree, 16, Dhanshiya, 14 and Deepika 12, in a rental house at Vaikkalmedu on Muthanampalayam-Kovilvazhli road in Tirupur for the last six years. His younger daughter Deepika was studying class VI in a middle school. On Monday evening, she was walking towards the mess from her home.
A speeding car which was heading towards Dharapuram road, was about to hit the people who were standing infront a meat shop. The car was driven by a minor boy. The car hit the minor girl, whose head was buried under a roadside sand after the car ran over on her head and she died on the spot. The car rolled down and came to a halt.
The minor boy managed to escape from the spot. Nallur police went to the spot and sent the body to the Tirupur Government Medical College Hospital for postmortem. Police registered a case against the class X student for underage driving and involving in a fatal accident. His father Eswara Ganesan, a second-hand car dealer, was also booked for allowing minor son to drive the car in a public way.
The police booked them under section 279, 304 (A) of the Indian Penal Code and section 199 (a) (offences by juveniles) of the Motor Vehicles Act.
Police said the minor boy suffered injuries on his shoulder and he was admitted as an inpatient in a private hospital and the boy’s father is absconding.
"The father-son duo will be arrested, and the boy will be sent to juvenile home and the father will be remanded in judicial custody," said police.