Hyderabad: An information technology (IT) professional from Amberpet and his friend from Khairatabad have been booked for attempting to mislead police by providing false information in a road accident case.Around 5.40am on Sunday, the Jubilee Hills police received a complaint pertaining to a road accident at the intersection of Road Number 45 and Road Number 1 in Jubilee Hills. An XUV-500 SUV travelling from Kokapet to Amberpet rammed into the median at the Road Number 45 junction. The driver of the SUV abandoned the vehicle at the scene and left. Later, when police reached the spot around 6.30am, they discovered that it was a self-caused accident. A person, Kailasnadh Komara, 34, a software employee from Khairatabad, approached them claiming that on Saturday evening he went to a friend, Chandrajeet’s house at Kokapet, and while returning home via Jubilee Hills, the accident occurred at 5.40am due to speeding.Police then subjected Kailasnadh to a breathalyser test, and the reading showed nil, indicating he was sober. A suo motu case was registered against Kailasnadh under Sections 281 (rash driving on a public way) of the BNS and 184 of the MV Act. Subsequently, police verified the registration details of the vehicle and also checked the CCTV footage near the accident spot. “We saw that the person who got off the vehicle after the accident was not Kailasnadh. We questioned him, and he confessed to lying to us to cover for his friend, Sirish. We have summoned Sirish and added a section to the case charging both of them for providing false information to police to screen an offender. Both were issued notices under the relevant section of BNS to appear before the investigating officer and were let off,” an investigator of the Jubilee Hills police station said.According to police, Sirish, 36, claimed that he worked in the US for about 15 years and came to India in Jan 2024 to set up his own business. “Sirish confessed that he was the original driver, but left the spot in a cab, thinking of getting the vehicle towed later. He claimed that he was used to driving on the right side of the road in the US and suddenly lost control at the road intersection while taking a turn. We subjected him to a breathalyser test on Sunday afternoon, and his reading was 7mg/100 ml, within the permissible limit. Kailasnadh claimed that he came to the spot to help Sirish in getting the vehicle towed and mistakenly claimed he was the driver, thinking it was a small offence,” the Jubilee Hills police said.
