Bail plea of drunken youth driver rejected for causing major mishap at Punjagutta

The III Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Nampally, on Saturday rejected the bail petition of an engineering student Sravel, who is principal accused in a car accident on the Punjagutta flyover on July 1. Sravel, a third year Engineering student at Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, is now cooling his heels as an undertrial at Chanchalguda jail. He had earlier unsuccessfully applied for bail several times. It may be mentioned here that on July 1, Sravel and his friends, who consumed liquor in a bar, drove the car at very high speed on the Punjagutta flyover and the car rammed into the divider and fell down on a Satro car on the road below, killing three persons. In the accident, eight-year-old Ramya suffered critical injuries and breathed her last after nine days. Her uncle Rajesh died on the spot and her mother and grandfather were hospitalized. After some days, her grandfather also succumbed to the injuries.