Alistair Pereira gets 3 yrs for mowing down seven in 2006

January 12, 2012 11:02

Good morning.

First up, news that should deter drink drivers.

The Supreme Court upholds the conviction of Alister Anthony Pereira who had mowed down seven people to death in 2006. The SC cancelled Pereira's bail and directed him to undergo a three-year jail term awarded by the Bombay High Court.

The appeal of Alistair Pereira, who was convicted by the Bombay High Court in the hit-and-run case, was heard by a new bench of the Supreme Court.

Pereira had run over and killed seven pavement dwellers and injured 14 others in 2006.

In an order passed on September 6, 2007, the high court convicted Pereira for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced him to three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh.

He then filed an appeal in the apex court against the order. In the SC, Justice Markandey Katju and Justice GS Gyan Sudha Mishra differed on the quantum of the sentence.

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