Articles tagged with: drunk driving

2015 drunk-drive-killing-alleged lawyer Janhavi Gadkar re-appeals against revocation of licence • SPP finally appointed January

C orporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar , who stands accused of killing two when driving on the wrong side of a freeway when drunk in Mumbai in 2015, has appealed to the Bombay high court against the regional transport office (RTO) revokation of her driving licence for life, reported the Times of India . J...

Corporate lawyer Jahnavi Gadkar, bailed in alleged drink-drive killings, given permission to visit Europe for holiday

Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries in-house lawyer who had allegedly killed two passengers of another car while ramming into it while drunk in 2015, has been permitted to visit Europe for tourism, relaxing her bail condition, reported Sadaf Modak in The Indian Express.

Law student allegedly kills 1, injures 10 in drunk drive Porsche crash

Supreme Court advocate Vijay Anand’s son V Vikas allegedly killed an autorickshaw driver and injured 10 others in Chennai when his Porsche car rammed into 12 parked autorickshaws while drunk driving, reported several media.

Lawyer Janhavi Gadkar drunk drive charges to be framed 20 September, faces 7+ years jail

Lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who in 2015 while working at Reliance Industries as an in-house lawyer killed two while allegedly driving drunk in Mumbai, will likely appear in court on 20 September when charges against her will be framed, reported the Times of India:

Drunk-drive lawyer Janhavi Gadkar's licence not returned, may lose car rights forever

The Regional Transport Office (RTO) might revoke for life the driving licence of advocate Janhavi Gadkar, who is alleged to have killed two people in road rash, in a final order of RTO that will be drafted this month.

Drunk-drive-killing-alleged lawyer Janhavi Gadkar gets back driving licence

A session court has ordered the police to return the driving licence and car of Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries in-house lawyer and former Talwar Thakore Associates associate who allegedly killed two passengers in a taxi when driving drunk in June 2015.

Legally Explained: How to drink and drive and (not) get away with it [via Mint]

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Drink driving: The legal risk
Drink driving: The legal risk
*Hot on the heels of Salman Khan’s liberation, criminal lawyer Vagisha Kochar explains how drink driving laws work in reality.

560-page 'culpable homicide' charge sheet with 57 witness statements filed against lawyer Janhavi Gadkar for drunk drive killing [UPDATE-1]

Police on Monday filed a voluminous charge sheet, invoking the dreaded charge of ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’ against 35-year-old corporate lawyer Jahnvi Gadkar, who was arrested on June 10 for drunk driving and killing two people. Running into around 560 pages, the charge sheet inclu...

After 57 days in jail, Amit Desai gets Janhavi Gadkar bail in drunk-drive killing case

Mumbai sessions court judge Sanjay V Patil granted bail to Janhavi Gadkar today with Rs 30,000 surety, after the Reliance Industries in-house and former Talwar Thakore Associates corporate lawyer allegedly killed two when driving drunk nearly two months ago, reported Mid-day and others. Gadkar’s law...

Bail of Janhavi Gadkar, now jailed for 46 days, rejected for second time

The bail of Reliance Industries in-house counsel Janhavi Gadkar, who allegedly killed two while driving drunk, has been rejected by the Kurla metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai today, reported NDTV and others. Her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis told the court that she would cooperate with the police and that b...

Police uses still-jailed Janhavi Gadkar crash for marketing, complains her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis

The Indian Express reported that 44 days after her arrest, while still in jail without bail and the court expected to give its order on 24 July: Arguing for lawyer Janhavi Gadkar to be released on bail, her advocate said that the traffic authorities were maligning the law fraternity by putting up po...

Yesterday's news: Still no bail for 'maniac' lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, reported almost no-one

Reliance Industries lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who, through senior advocate Amit Desai, had filed for bail in her drunken driving accident case will remain jailed at least until 24 July because the investigation was not yet complete, reported Times of India and the Hindustan Times but almost no other new...

Mumbai woman locks self in car to escape alcohol test after police crackdown on female drivers

A 42-year-old Bandra resident was booked for drunk driving allegedly, after having locked herself in her car for two hours, chain smoking, allegedly in order to avoid taking a breathalyser test by Mumbai police, who have stepped up their controls of drunk drivers, focusing in particular on women, af...

Janhavi Gadkar bail plea deferred 2 days as victim's daughter files IA

The bail plea of Reliance Industries in-house lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, who allegedly killed two while driving drunk last week Tuesday, has been postponed to Wednesday by a metropolitan magistrate yesterday (Monday), after her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis said she needed urgent medical care to tend to her frac...

Being human: Janhavi Gadkar’s slow motion media car crash has made her a punching bag stand-in for a lakh others

Being human
Being human
The story of corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar allegedly killing two men in a taxi while she was driving her Audi drunkenly down the wrong side of a Mumbai highway is deeply tragic and troubling, in many ways.