Kalyan Bainsla, the accused in the hit-and-run case of a woman biker, Sia, at the Golf Course Road in Haryana's Gurugram, on Monday claimed that he "did not intentionally hit her".
This comes after Sia's father sought an attempt to murder charge against him, saying that if he had been informed about the incident, he "would have filed an FIR earlier", as per a Times of India report.
"I asked her, ‘If such an incident happened, why didn’t you tell us? You should have told us when you got home'," he added.
Both Sia's brother and lawyer have also claimed that Bainsla was one among four drunk men in the car, and that they all had made "abusive gestures" before sideswiping her bike.
"The men had likely been out drinking since the night before and encountered her on the road in the morning. She is experiencing something akin to trauma," her brother alleged.
Apart from denying the claim that he had intentionally hit Sia, the accused also claimed to the media that he was not aware a woman had been driving the bike, and was sad that she was injured.
He further claimed that he had been travelling from Delhi with his sister and cousin, and that he had faced an issue with several haphazard bike drivers when he had reached the Golf Course Road.
Pointing out that he was not against driving bikes, but against driving them rashly—as he loved driving bikes himself—Bainsla noted that this inconvenience continued for about 10 minutes before he put his hand out of the car and signalled to one such biker to "drive a little slower and more carefully".
Alleging that the aim was to overtake the bikers and drive away to safety, Bainsla admitted that the collision had happened while trying to make a wide turn around them, but said that it was not with the intention of hitting the bike driver.
He then reportedly stopped at a red light, but on the advice of his cousin, who allegedly feared that the bikers might cause trouble after the collision, he drove away past the red light.
The Gurugram Police had earlier filed a suo motu case against him at the Sector 56 Police Station after taking cognisance of the viral video, and had even begun tracking him down.
Sia, who had recorded the incident from a rider-facing dashcam on her bike, claimed that a man in the white sedan had made gestures at her before charging forward and ramming into her bike from the side.
The impact threw her off the bike onto the road, after which the two-wheeler is seen skidding for a few feet before coming to a halt, as the sedan sped off.
“I have nothing to say, but today I felt unsafe on Gurugram roads. People like these aren’t afraid of hitting people and running away,” she had said earlier.
Though she had also said that she would be pursuing a legal case from her side, the police probe into the matter is yet to shed more light, especially since Bainsla has urged that visuals of the whole incident be used to evaluate it, and not just the viral social media clip.
