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SUV driver surrenders after forty two hours

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BANGALORE: Almost 42 hours after he recklessly drove his Land Rover on to a pavement killing four people and injuring seven others off Hosur Road on Monday night, Krishnappa Chinnappa alias Bar Krishnappa, 55, former Bommanahalli municipal council president, surrendered in a court on Wednesday evening.
Keeping at bay three police teams constituted to nab him, Krishnappa sprang a surprise by appearing in person in the court of the Bangalore Rural additional chief judicial magistrate on Nrupatunga Road.

Krishnappa was accompanied by a battery of lawyers, led by former public prosecutor Venkat Rao and his juniors, at the court around 4pm. Krishnappa told the court that police were looking for him in an accident case and urged the magistrate to remand him in judicial custody. In the absence of any prosecution plea for his police custody, the magistrate remanded Krishnappa in judicial custody till July 27.

Police officers had in private admitted that Krishnappa was delaying his arrest to make it impossible for it to be medically determined whether he was drunk or not at the time of the accident.

The judicial remand now further delays Krishnappa being subjected to medical tests.

The city police are likely to move court seeking his custody on Thursday.

Police officers said only after obtaining Krishnappas custody will they be able to question him or conduct a medical test.

B Dayananda, additional commissioner of police (traffic), said: “We shall approach the court on Thursday morning, seeking the police custody of Krishnappa. Once he is handed over to police, we shall send him for medical examination. Also we have question him whether he was alone at the time of accident or was accompanied by anybody.”

Krishnappa, a resident of Hosa Road, had left his house in his Land Rover around 10.15pm on Monday. He lost control over the vehicle 15 minutes later after it hit a speedbreaker in Chennakeshavarnagar, close to Hosur Road-Parappana Agrahara Road junction. The Land Rover swerved to the right, jumped the median and climbed the pavement before ploughing into a crowd of vegetable pushcart vendors and customers. The driver summoned a white Maruti van and sped away in it within minutes of the accident.

An extensive search by three police teams for the fugitive driver was in vain for two days. Though Krishnappa carried three mobile phones, he was careful enough not to use them and leave a trail that could lead police to him.

One of the three mobile phones remained switched off an hour before the accident, while he stopped using the other two some time after the accident that happened around 10.30pm. The last sign of activity of Krishnappas phones was recorded by mobile towers in Electronic City on Monday midnight. After that Krishnappa did not use them.

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