Utsav Bhasin convicted in 2008 BMW hit-and-run case

A court here on Friday acquitted Utsav Bhasin, the son of a Haryana-based businessman of harsher charges of culpable homicide but convicted him under the lighter offence of causing death by rash and negligent driving in the 2008 BMW hit-and-run case in south Delhi.

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Kumar convicted Bhasin, accused of ramming his BMW car into a motorcycle and killing a man in 2008, under sections 304-A (causing death by rash and negligent act), 279 (driving rashly which could endanger human life) and 338 (causing grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

However, the court acquitted him of a harsher section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) saying that there is lack of evidence to prosecute the accused on harsher charges.

The court observed that the witnesses did not support the charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, for which a person can be jailed for a minimum 10 years or maximum for life. However, under sections 304 and 338 of the IPC, Bhasin may face imprisonment for two years or a fine.

Bhasin was driving his BMW car when he allegedly hit killing Anuj Singh on September 11, 2008.