Gurgaon BMW crash: Owner's son gets bail

The son of the BMW car owner, Suraj Singh Sehrawat, was today granted bail just a few hours after he surrendered in a Gurgaon court in a hit-and-run case that killed two people on 5 May, reports NDTV . The Gurgaon court had yesterday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Rajesh, who had claimed he was behind the wheel of the BMW car that collided with an Indigo on IFFCO Chowk, saying he need not be kept in custody as he was not the accused, reports Times of India . The court’s action, which declared the bail plea “not mentionable” , added to the suspicion that Rajesh was part of a coverup as reported by Firstpost . [caption id=“attachment_309937” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Suraj Sehrawat, who was driving the BMW, has been granted bail. Firstpost”] [/caption] The owner of the BMW, Devender Sehrawat, had maintained all along that the car was being driven by Rajesh, and not his son, Suraj, who had been missing since the accident took place. Management graduate Kshama Chopra, an IBM employee based out of Mumbai, and her driver Sanjay Gulati died in the car crash. Kshama’s husband Shailesh Shetye and her parents sustained serious head injuries. “Rajesh is innocent, just a fall guy,” TOI quoted advocate Vishal Gupta, Rajesh’s lawyer, as saying. The TOI report quoting highly placed sources said that key witness accounts and forensic data strongly suggested that Suraj was driving the BMW when it crashed at high speed. The report added that police have filed an application in a city court for issuance of a non-bailable warrant against Suraj. The report quotes a top police officer as saying that Suraj does not have a valid driving licence and his father tried to shield him from legal action by shifting the blame on to Rajesh.