Jul 8 (Agencies): While the parents of the 4-year-old girl who died in the car accident are still mourning the death of their child, actor turned politician Hema Malini in a series of tweets accused the father of the deceased for not following traffic rules which eventually led to the accident.
The accident took place in Dausa, Rajasthan when Hema Malini's speeding Mercedes collided head-on with an Alto carrying six people on July 2.
While Hema Malini fractured her nose and suffered from minor injuries, a four-year -old girl lost her life in the accident.
Following are the tweets posted by Hema Malini on her Twitter handle:
The actress further vented out her anger on media for sensationalizing the accident.
This prompted B.K. Gupta, uncle of Shikha Khandelwal, mother of the child who was killed in the accident near Dausa on July 2, to question Hema Malini.
Gupta told IANS: "Why is Hema Malini after almost six days raising this topic, we don't understand. Where was she for all these days? The accident happened on July 2. Why again this issue is being raised?"
He also rebutted Hema's claim that the accident between her speeding Mercedes and the family's car occurred because the girl's father didn't follow traffic rules.
"The car had given indicator and then turned. Our family members were driving correctly," Gupta said.
Besides the girl's death, four others, including Shikha Khandewal, in the other car were injured.
Gupta said the actress was backtracking from her earlier statement.
"Why is she backtracking, we don't know," he said.
On July 3, she had expressed deep sorrow over the road accident, and said she was deeply pained by the death of innocent children.
Her driver Mahesh Thakur, a resident of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on July 3 on charges on causing death by negligence and overspeeding. He was later released on bail.
With IANS Inputs