Lamborghini crash: Tycoon's son planted dummy driver to shift blame, say cops
India Today
After being on the run for four days, the son of a Kanpur tobacco tycoon was arrested on Thursday after he rammed his Lamborghini into pedestrians. The police, in their application before the court, said Shivam Mishra fled the scene and attempted to shift blame to a 'dummy driver'.
Kanpur police said the son of a prominent tobacco businessman who was involved in the Lamborghini crash went into hiding after the incident on February 8 and attempted to mislead investigators by presenting a dummy driver to take the blame. Shivam Mishra, the son of tobacco tycoon KK Mishra, was arrested on Thursday following a four-day search.
In its application filed before the court, exclusively accessed by India Today, police said Shivam fled the scene immediately after the accident, which left three people injured. The next day, police claimed, a fake affidavit was prepared, falsely identifying another person, named Mohan, as the driver of the Lamborghini Revuelto, a luxury sports car priced at over Rs 10 crore.
Previously, KK Mishra also claimed that Shivam was not behind the wheel of the car. Videos also went viral showing bouncers linked to the businessman trying to tear off the vehicle's registration plate, ostensibly to conceal the identity of its owner.
However, police told the court on Thursday that a thorough investigation had firmly established that Shivam was himself driving the Lamborghini at the time of the crash on Sunday night.
Eyewitnesses said the luxury car hit an autorickshaw and a stationary motorcycle at high speed before mounting the pavement and striking pedestrians at the upscale Gwaltoli area.
The case took a twist on Wednesday after a man named Mohan, 45, claimed before a district court that he and not Shivam was driving the Lamborghini. Speaking to reporters, Mohan claimed he lost control of the car when Shivam, who was seated beside him, suffered a sudden seizure. However, the court rejected Mohan's surrender application.
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