The 19-year-old accused in the Iskcon flyover tragedy, which claimed nine lives and left 13 injured in Ahmedabad, was reportedly a history speedster . Police investigations revealed that Tathya Patel went over the speed limit 25 times in the past month, with CCTV footage capturing him driving luxury cars at speeds ranging from 120kmph to 140kmph on various city roads.
A Gujarat court on Friday sent Tathya Patel, the driver who allegedly crushed nine people to death by his speeding luxury car on the ISKCON Bridge in Ahmedabad, to judicial remand till Sunday.
A magistrate court on Friday granted the police the custody of Tathya for three days – until 4 pm on July 24. The police had sought five days of remand.
Nine people were killed and more than 10 injured, some of them seriously, after an SUV ran over a crowd gathered at an accident spot on the ISKCON flyover in Ahmedabad in the wee hours of Thursday.