{"id":48692,"date":"2017-06-19T04:57:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48692"},"modified":"2017-06-19T04:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T23:27:45","slug":"delhi-court-refuses-leniency-negligent-driving-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-court-refuses-leniency-negligent-driving-case","title":{"rendered":"Delhi court refuses leniency in negligent driving case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47723\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Legal-awareness.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47723\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/legal-awareness-weapon-hands-citizen\/legal-awareness\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Legal-awareness.jpg?fit=289%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"289,174\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Legal awareness\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Legal-awareness.jpg?fit=289%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47723 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Legal-awareness.jpg?resize=289%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Delhi court refuses leniency in negligent driving case\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Legal-awareness.jpg?w=289&amp;ssl=1 289w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/Legal-awareness.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delhi court refuses leniency in negligent driving case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A sessions court here has refused to show leniency to a truck driver, jailed for causing the death of a 24-year-old man with negligent and rash driving.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Pandit dismissed the appeal by Rohtak resident Jitender against a magisterial court&#8217;s order by which he was given a one-and-a-half-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p>Jitender had prayed for a lenient view.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions court noted that according to the accused, he was driving the vehicle in the middle lane, overtaking other vehicles, which shows that he was driving negligently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not find any ground for taking leniency,&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, on December 8, 2009, victim Praveen was riding a motorcycle when the truck hit him from behind. Praveen succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The accused, however, had claimed that it was Praveen who was riding the motorcycle rashly and negligently and caused the accident.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sessions court here has refused to show leniency to a truck driver, jailed for causing the death of a 24-year-old man with negligent and rash driving. Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Pandit dismissed the appeal by Rohtak resident Jitender against a magisterial court&#8217;s order by which he was given a one-and-a-half-year jail term. Jitender had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,1],"tags":[146,32748,2671,31987,117,80,28658],"class_list":["post-48692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-criminal-news","tag-delhi-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-negligent-driving-case"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delhi court refuses leniency in negligent driving case - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A sessions court here has refused to show leniency to a truck driver, jailed for causing the death of a 24-year-old man with negligent and rash driving. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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