The Ahmedabad city police will probe if Tathya Patel, the 19-year-old youth who allegedly ran a speeding Jaguar over a crowd at an accident site on Iskcon flyover on Ahmedabad's S G highway early Thursday, killing nine persons, had allegedly rammed a Mahindra Thar into a cafe on the Sindhu Bhavan Road (SBR) in the city's high-end neighbourhood on July 3. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (West Zone) Neeta Desai told mediapersons on Saturday that a complaint is being filed by the cafe owner into the July 3 incident. "We are registering a case as per the complaint filed by the cafe owner. The police have asked him why he did not report this earlier. Had he done so we would have written to the RTO (Regional Transport Office) to cancel his (Patel's) driving licence and filed a case,” Desai added. A video surfaced on Saturday that showed a Thar, purportedly driven by Patel, ramming into a wall of a cafe on SBR. "We will let you know whatever comes out in the investigation. If there are more videos of racing and stunts, we will tell you,” Desai told the media. She further said that Patel's mobile phone had been seized and was being investigated by the forensic experts. The police have prepared a report recommending cancellation of his driving licence, which will be sent to the RTO (Regional Transport Office) on Monday, Desai added. Patel and his father Pragnesh, 44 are under arrest and in police remand facing charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, among other sections of the IPC. The DCP said that the police have questioned Patel and his five friends, who were in the Jaguar with him at the time of the accident, “to cross verify where all they went, who all they met, which cafe did they hang out in, what snacks did they have and which route did they take thereafter”. “On the basis of the information given by them. we are collecting CCTV camera footage of these roads. The cellphones used by the friends will also be investigated. We have to verify if the phones they gave us were the ones they were actually using.” Desai, meanwhile, said that the blood reports of Patel and his friends have tested "negative for drugs". "We will get a report in two days on the real-time reconstruction of the crime scene that we have conducted with forensic experts,” she added. Besides, the police also conducted a brake test for the Jaguar at the RTO on Saturday. Statements, meanwhile, have been recorded of the eyewitnesses to the accident and the 13 people who were injured when the Jaguar hit them on the flyover. "We have also sent teams to record the statements of relatives of the deceased who were from outside Ahmedabad," Desai said.
