The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by a hit and run convict against his five year conviction by the Gujarat High Court and ordered him to surrender in jail.
When counsel for Vismay Shah, the the hit and run driver who killed two youth in Ahmedabad when his speeding BMW knocked them down, told the court that the families of the two victims had no grievances as they had been paid Rs 1.5 crore each, the bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and M R Shah replied: “You can’t buy justice with money”. The apex court then dismissed Shah’s special leave petition that challenged the February 17 decision of the High Court upholding the Ahmedabad trial court verdict which held that Shah had caused the death of two students who were travelling in an autorickshaw due to his rash and negligent driving. The two were the only children of their parents.
The accident took place in 2013 and two years later, the court had fined Shah Rs 31,000 with five years in jail in 2015. The HC imposed an additional fine of Rs 2 lakh on him. Meanwhile, Shah entered into a compromise with the victims’ families who did not press their demand for harsher punishment.
– India Legal Bureau