Shivam Mishra, the son of tobacco baron K.K. Mishra, managed to obtain bail from a Kanpur court on Thursday, just hours after he had been arrested in connection with the high-profile Lamborghini hit-and-run case.
Shivam's arrest and bail come four days after he was accused of crashing a Lamborghini Revuelto—priced at about Rs 10 crore—into pedestrians and other vehicles at the VIP Road, before ramming into a divider.
According to Shivam Mishra's lawyer, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) court also refused the police's demand for a 14-day remand, as a result of which he is "now being released on a Rs 20,000 undertaking and a Rs 20,000 personal bond".
"The police were acting under pressure from the government. The police had wrongly arrested (Shivam)," the lawyer further alleged.
This allegation comes a day after a man claimed that he—and not Mishra—had been driving the car at the time of the incident. The man even went to the local court to surrender himself.
The Kanpur court, however, rejected the man's surrender plea after the police maintained that it had evidence to prove Mishra was behind the wheel.
Then, on Thursday, Kanpur Central DCP Atul Srivastava said that the police had received information of Shivam coming to Kanpur, after which they arrested him, but kept some details of the arrest vague.
Srivastava added that Shivam also had not been cooperating in the investigation and was not appearing before the police for questioning, which was why a coordinated police effort was taken to arrest him on Thursday.
Notably, in the run-up to his arrest, Mishra had been undergoing treatment for a medical condition at a hospital in Delhi, his family claimed, an official had told PTI.
In that regard, a police officer had also told PTI that Shivam had been arrested from a hospital—without specifying the location. This narrative was later amended to the current one about arresting him from Kanpur.