Dausa Car Crash: Hema out of hospital, arrives in Mumbai

“On the request of family members, she was discharged around 9:30 am,” a spokesperson of Fortis Hospital said.

Hema Malini later said that she would provide financial assistance to the victims of the accident.

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The 66-year-old actress had undergone a surgery for her wounds at the hospital on Friday. She was also treated for a minor fracture on her nose.

A four-year-old girl was killed while five others, including the actor, were injured when Hema’s car collided with another car on Thursday night in Dausa, 60 km from here.

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Mahesh Chand Thakur, who was driving Hema’s car when it met with the accident, has been arrested at Kotwali Thana.

An FIR was lodged against the driver, who hails from Vrindavan, under various sections of IPC including 279 (rash driving) and 304 (A) (causing death by negligence not amounting to culpable homicide).

Thakaur was on Friday produced before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Pallavi Sharma who granted bail to the driver. He was later released on bail. The actor was taken to Mumbai by a chartered plane.

She was accompanied by her daughter Esha Deol and her husband Bharat Takhtani.

The family had alleged indifference on Hema’s part, claiming their daughter could have been saved had the actor taken her along to Jaipur.

However, defending her mother, Esha said the actor was in a shock after the accident and could not have thought of checking up on the other injured.

(with PTI inputs)