Leniency Can’t Be Shown For Drunken Driving Merely Because No Major Accident Occurred

Case: Brijesh Chandra Dwivedi (Dead) & Thr LRs vs Sanya Sahayak & Ors

Coram: Justice MR Shah and Justice BV Nagarathna

Case No.: Civil Appeal No. 7382 Of 2021

Court Observation: “Nobody can be permitted to drive the vehicle under the influence of alcohol”

“It was sheer good luck that the accident was not a fatal accident. It could have been a fatal accident. When the employee was driving a truck carrying the P.A.C. personnel, the lives of those P.A.C. personnel who were travelling in the truck were in the hands of the driver. Therefore, it can be said that he played with the lives of those P.A.C. personnel, who were on duty and travelling from Fatehpur to Allahabad on Kumbh Mela duty.”

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Drunken Driving, Major Accident Occurred