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Bangalore, Oct 28: Is there no end to the kin of prominent personalities running amok? Here’s the latest: After Adam Bidapa and Nikhil Gowda, D J Sangeeth — grandnephew of the late chief minister S Nijalingappa — has knocked down a motorist and injured two others.
The accident occurred barely a few yards from former CM S M Krishna’s house at the intersection of the 5th Cross and 9th Main in Sadashivnagar.
Around 8.30 pm on Thursday, Sangeeth was zipping down 9th Main in his Innova and talking on his mobile, while three motorists on two motorbike were riding on 5th Cross. The car and the two bikes dashed sideways.
It proved fatal for Vasudev (21), who was working with a multi-national company, while his two friends on the other bike — Nagendra and Renuka Prasad of Geddalahalli — sustained serious injuries. Within no time, Sangeeth abandoned the car and ran away.
Krishna’s gunman, who was witness to the accident, called the Sadashivnagar traffic police and with the help of others shifted the injured to a hospital.
The police arrived later, only to find the abandoned Innova and two bikes.
The police, with the help of RTO officials, traced the car to Haji Mohd Abdul Khadir, a coffee planter from Chikmagalur who has set up a tyre shop in the Shantinagar area here.
When interrogated, Khadir claimed that one Ashwath, 25, was driving the car when the accident occurred.
Ashwath was picked up, but the two injured bike riders refused to identify him as the driver. When interrogated, Ashwath confessed that Khadir tutored him to pose as the driver.
When the police confronted Khadir, he revealed that he sold the Innova a few days ago to Sangeeth, son of D V Jagadeesh, who is a nephew of Nijalingappa.
Jagadeesh had served as private secretary to Nijalingappa when he was the chief minister.
Sangeeth was yet to transfer the car to his name.
Sangeeth seems to have a murky past. The police said he was named by a Kenyan national, arrested in a drugpeddling case a few months ago, during the narco-analysis test.
Sangeeth is absconding. The police, acting on a hunch, have sent a team to Chitradurga to nab him.
The police have taken up a case against Khadir under various provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act for giving them misleading information.