In Brief
A truck driver was convicted under Sections 279 and 304-A of the Indian Penal Code for causing a fatal road accident in 2000 that killed a 15-year-old boy on a moped. The driver fled the scene and was arrested weeks later. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, rejecting arguments about identity doubts based on eyewitness testimony and the driver's surrender by his ITBP commandant. The Court dismissed pleas to reduce the sentence or grant probation, holding that rash and negligent driving causing death warrants just and adequate punishment regardless of time elapsed, and affirmed the imprisonment and fine awarded by lower courts.
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