Vadodara Law student killed 1, injured 7 sent to police custody

In their remand petition, the Vadodara police informed the court that the police needed to investigate further to ascertain what happened before the accident and to see if Chaurasiya was driving drunk intentionally.

A court in Vadodara on Saturday handed over police custody of Rakshit Chaurasiya, a law student who is accused of killing one and injuring seven others in a car crash on Thursday night. The court remanded Chaurasiya to one day in custody after a late-night hearing on Friday, said the city's police commissioner, Narsimha Komar.

The Vadodara police, in making their remand request, informed the court that they needed to investigate further into the sequence of events leading up to the crash and if Chaurasiya was driving recklessly under the influence of intoxicants. The police are also probing the affair between Chaurasiya and Praanshu Chauhan, the son of the car owner, who was traveling with him at the time of the accident.

The court was told that there was a need to know why Chaurasiya, and not Chauhan, was behind the wheel when the accident occurred. The police are also investigating Chaurasiya's background and his connections with the people around him prior to the crash.

Police arrested Chauhan on Friday and identified a third person, Suresh, who was said to have been with Chaurasiya and Chauhan in the pre-dawn hours on the day of the accident but was not in the car when it took place. Samples of their blood have been sent for forensic tests to see if they had all taken any kind of intoxicants together.

The police are seeking to establish the facts surrounding the case and whether there were any possible links between the parties involved as part of an ongoing inquiry.