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Gujarat Teacher Held After Drunk-Driving Crash That Carried Biker 750 Meters on Hood

Police detained a government schoolteacher with his brother after video showed motorists stopping the car.

Overview

  • Police registered a case at Bakor police station under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions for endangering life, causing grievous hurt and attempted culpable homicide, along with sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.
  • Officers recovered a liquor bottle from the car and summoned a forensic team, with a parallel probe into the source of the alcohol under Gujarat’s prohibition law.
  • The injured motorcyclists, Sunil Machhar and his father-in-law Dinesh Charel, were hospitalized, with Charel reported to have serious injuries.
  • Eyewitnesses in a trailing vehicle filmed the car pushing the motorcycle and intervened to halt it, providing key evidence for investigators.
  • Authorities have sought cancellation of the driver’s licence and signaled disciplinary action by the education department as inquiries continue, including checks on the brothers’ reported trip to Rajasthan.