Police yesterday said a son of a former legislator was behind the wheels of a car which fatally knocked down an Indian Air Force officer.
The police had earlier issued a look-out notice against former Rashtriya Janata Dal legislator Mohamed Sohrab and his two sons as all the three were on the run after the accident.
While the police had initially suspected Sohrab’s elder son Ambia Sohrab to be driving the sports utility vehicle which mowed down Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud on January 13, Special Additional Commissioner of Police Debasish Boral said it was the younger son Sambia who was driving the car.
“It is more or less confirmed, Sambia was driving the car,” said Boral, adding the police raided 10 places across the city in search of the three men.
Earlier in the day the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress rubbished claims that Sohrab was a Trinamool member.
With the police yet to make any arrest or trace the Sohrabs, opposition parties have been accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s government of thwarting the investigation to shield the politicians who is said to have joined the Trinamool.
“Sohrab had become an MLA on the support of the Left Front, but he is being projected as a Trinamool leader. Trinamool never had any links with Sohrab, he is neither a member or nor a leader of the party,” Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee said.
Rejecting Chatterjee’s assertions, Revolutionary Socialist Party leader Ashok Ghosh said: “It was Mukul Roy (former Trinamool general secretary) who had inducted Sohrab into the Trinamool. Chatterjee is now denying only because Sohrab is wanted in the case.”
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Roopa Ganguly too hit out at the Trinamool for shielding the guilty.
“It has been almost four days but police are still clueless and not able to make any arrest. Sohrab, being a Trinamool leader, was allowed to flee, only because he is a Trinamool leader, police can’t find him,” said the actress-turned politician.
The accident took place at the Indira Gandhi Sarani (erstwhile Red Road) which is being kept out of bounds for civilian traffic during mornings for the Republic Day parade rehearsals.