Ex-MLA's trial ordered for shielding son in hit-and-run case

The Calcutta High Court today ordered the trial of former RJD MLA Mohd Sohrab for allegedly shielding his son Sambia involved in killing an IAF corporal in a hit-and-run case last year during the Republic Day parade rehersal.
Justice Joymalyo Bagchi ordered the trial of Sambia's two friends, Shanu and Johny, also for allegedly harbouring him after the mishap in which he had driven his car into the parade ground and had ran over the 20-year-old IAF Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud, participating in the parade on January 13, 2016.
On a test drive in his brand new Audi, the former MLA's son had entered the parade ground on Red Road Fort William, the Army's Eastern Command headquarters here after jumping at least two traffic barricades and had run over Gaud, a Gujarat-based Air Force Drill Instructor.

The bench ordered prosecution of the trio, setting aside the order of a trial court which had discharged them of the offence of harbouring the former MLA's son, involved in the crime.
Sambia, the main accused in the hit-and-run case, was arrested by the Kolkata police a few days after the incident. He was not discharged in the case.