Suyash Parasrampuria, the 19-year-old student who was allegedly at the wheel of a Jaguar F-PACE when it knocked down a woman after hitting two cars on Ballygunge Circular Road in south Kolkata on Sunday, was on Monday remanded in police custody till August 12.
Suyash, a Class XII student at an English-medium school in the city, will spend the next four days in the custody of officers of the fatal squad of the traffic police at Lalbazar, who are probing the case.
The teenager has been booked under the IPC section related to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The lawyer representing Suyash submitted in the court that he had failed to spot the woman as his sight was cut off because of the deployment of the airbag after the Jaguar hit a Swift Dzire and a BMW.
A team of forensic experts inspected the accident spot, in front of Tivoli Court, and also examined the Jaguar F-PACE. The car has been seized and is parked outside Ballygunge police station.
Officers of the traffic department said the electronic data stored in the event data recorder of the Jaguar would be analysed.
In 2019, a crash involving a Jaguar F-PACE on Shakespeare Sarani killed two Bangladeshi nationals. Initially, Arsalan Parwez, a scion of the family that runs a biryani chain, had “surrendered” owning responsibility for the accident.
However, the police came to know after analysing the car’s event data recorder report that Arsalan’s elder brother, Raghib Parwez, was at the wheel of the Jaguar when it crashed.
A Jaguar has to be unlocked by a synchronised mobile number, the police said.
Multiple phone numbers can be synchronised with a Jaguar. “In the 2019 case, Raghib’s number was found last in the log,” said an officer.
Traffic cops investigating the crash on Ballygunge Circular Road on Sunday said they had collected CCTV footage of cameras installed nearby.
An officer said a woman was accompanying Suyash in the car. “She had left by the time traffic cops reached the spot,” the officer said. “When I reached the accident spot, the youth was alone in the car. He was sitting still,” said an officer who had gone to the spot after the accident.
Suyash’s driving licence, which was found on him, mentioned that the licence was issued in October 2021.
Saswati Das, 40, who died in the accident, was a resident of VIP Bazar in east Kolkata’s Anandapur.