Janjivan Bureau
Jaipur: Driver of BJP MP and actor Hema Malini has been arrested on Thursday night after an accident in Rajasthan.A child died and five others injured in the accident.
Hema’s driver Mahesh Thakur was driving the car when the accident took place in Dausa. He has been booked under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), section 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) and section 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others).
The Mathura MP was returning to Jaipur after a visit to the Mehendipur Balaji temple in Karauli district when her Mercedes rammed into an Alto at the Lalsot bypass on the highway. The family travelling in the car were residents of Lalsot, police said.
There were five people — one man, two women and two children — in the Alto car when the accident occurred. While one child died, the others received serious injuries. Two of the injured are at Jaipur’s SMS Hospital and the other two are at a hospital in Dausa, police said.