Daijiworld Media Network

New Delhi, Jan 12: Alistair Pereira, who had been awarded a three-year jail term by the Bombay high court in the 2006 hit-and-run case, has been directed to surrender, after the Supreme Court upheld the high court sentence here on Thursday January 12.

In 2006, Pereira was charged with hitting 15 labourers who were sleeping on a pavement in Carter Road, Bandra in Mumbai. Seven of them were killed.

Delivering the verdict, the SC bench headed by Justice R M Lodha cancelled Pereira's bail bond and asked him to surrender.

Pereira was earlier convicted by a sessions court on April 13, 2007, which awarded him six months imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5 lac that was to be paid to the victims of the accident.

Pereira challenged the conviction before the Bombay High Court. His plea was dismissed on September 6, 2007 he was awarded three years of jail term. He was then given bail. It was this sentence that Pereira had challenged in the SC.