4 min readVadodaraOct 16, 2025 07:48 PM IST
First published on: Oct 16, 2025 at 07:48 PM IST
The Vadodara Sessions Court Wednesday rejected the regular bail plea filed by Rakshit Chaurasia, a law student accused of killing one person and injuring seven others in a car accident in the Karelibaug area of the city on March 13, considering the objections raised by the prosecution as well as the apprehension that Chaurasia, a native of Uttar Pradesh, may remain absent during the trial if granted bail.
Additional Sessions Judge P N Raval Wednesday heard the arguments of Chaurasia’s lawyer R A Singh and District Government Pleader Anil Desai, who objected to the bail plea stating that Chaurasia, a law student of MS University at the time of the accident, was driving the car under the influence of a cocktail of narcotics, including Tetra-Hydro Cannabinol (THC) and codeine.
Chaurasia’s lawyer submitted to the court that he had been in prison since the incident and has been framed in the case, where the police has “estimated” the speed of the car as having been 140 kmph. The lawyer contended in the bail plea that the speed of the car was approximately 40 kmph at the time of the accident. In his submission, Chaurasia also raised a question over the police inaction in penalising the two-wheelers involved in the accident, who were riding with three passengers, in contravention of law.
“The submissions made by the lawyer of the accused that the police had failed to initiate action against one of the two-wheelers on which three persons were riding in violation of traffic rules, has no connection with the act committed by the accused and therefore, irrelevant,” the court said in its order.
The court further considered the submissions made by Desai that being a law student, the accused was well aware about the consequences of his act.
“It is difficult to believe that a person, who is a student of law, was unaware of the consequences of driving a car under the influence of narcotics and in violation of the law… It is also pertinent to note that the accused is not a resident of Gujarat but belongs to Uttar Pradesh and therefore, the apprehension expressed (by the prosecution) that he may be difficult to trace during the trial is also worthy of being noted,” the court said in the order.
Earlier, Chaurasia’s bail plea was rejected on April 24, 2025.
On March 13, Chaurasia, along with his co-accused Praanshu Chauhan, was driving a German-made Volkswagen Virtus, allegedly under the influence of narcotics when the car crashed into three two-wheelers outside Amrapali Shopping complex on a busy street in the Karelibaug area of Vadodara.
The police affidavit also highlighted the viral video of Chaurasiya after the accident, in which he was seen screaming, “another round”, naming a friend and also chanting the names of Gods, stating that “his conduct was that of jubilation as if he had achieved a feat instead of feeling remorse for his action or reaching out in aid of the injured persons.”
The affidavit further stated that Chaursaiya, being a native of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, is “likely to remain absent from court hearings during the trial and turn uncooperative in further police investigation”.
Both Chaurasia and Chauhan as well as a third friend were also booked under the NDPS Act for consuming narcotics after their blood samples tested positive for the same.
The court further considered the submissions made by Desai that being a law student, the accused was well aware about the consequences of his act. (File Photo) 
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