No relief for Utsav Bhasin for now

The Delhi High Court today refused to give any interim protection to Utsav Bhasin, a Haryana industrialist's teenaged son, accused of killing one person with his BMW car in south Delhi.  Bhasin had approached the High Court for anticipatory bail in the case after the city police imposed additional charge against him under a harsher penal provision under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). 

Justice Veena Birbal, after hearing the contention of Bhasin and Delhi Police on the accused's bail plea, adjourned the matter for tomorrow. Justice Birbal, however, refused to grant any interim protection to Bhasin who is facing a threat of being re-arrested after the death of one of the accident victim. Bhasin was earlier denied anticipatory bail by the trial court on September 18.

Though he was granted bail by the police soon after the incident, he is facing re-arrest as the police invoked a harsher penal provision against him after an accident victim, Anuj Singh, succumbed to his injuries on September 12. Bhasin, 19, son of industrialist R K Bhasin from Bahadurgarh in Haryana, challenged the September 18 order passed by a trial court dismissing his bail petition. He said in his petition that he was falsely implicated by the police in this case as it was a case of accident that took place due to an error committed by drivers of either of the two vehicles involved in the incident.

Informing the court that he was ready to join the investigation, he said there is no evidence to establish that he had any motive to kill the victim Anuj Singh, who was travelling on a bike.  Following the victim's death, another penal provision of 304 A(causing death by rash and   negligent acts) of the IPC was invoked against the accused. Later, another stringent provision of section 304 was also invoked against Bhasin. 

The accused, who planned to fly to Singapore for joining a BBA course, was earlier granted bail by Lajpat Nagar police as he was booked under IPC section 304 A (causing death by rash negligent acts), a mild provision which attracts a maximum of two years' jail term. Bhasin was allegedly at the wheels when his BMW car hit two men on a motorcycle around 2.30 am on September 11 near Moolchand flyover in south Delhi.