Three Doscos party, drive rashly killing one

DEHRA DUN: Three Doon School boys, out on a binge after their Class XII boards, allegedly killed a man and seriously injured another, when their speeding Honda City hit the victims who were riding on a bike on Dehra Dun's main thoroughfare. The boys took fright and fled after the accident.
Police said the accident took place late Wednesday night on Rajpur Road when the three boys, after having finished their last ISC (Class XII) examination were out for a joyride in one of the boys' car after a boozy evening.
Eyewitnesses said they were racing with another car.
Police said the three boys who had earlier got together with friends from other public schools to party hit a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction. "The car was most probably being driven by Abhimanyu Walia, one of the three boys, who is from Chandigarh. The car was on the wrong lane," said Rajpur police station in-charge Kamlesh Namboori.
He said the three identified as Abhimanyu, Pranav Swaroop from Muzaffarnagar and Uday Pratap Singh from New Delhi's Defence Colony had fled after they hit the two men on the motorcycle at around 10.15 pm and are absconding. Police suspect that the three are still in Dehra Dun.
Doon School headmaster Kanti Bajpai told TOI that the boys weren't under the school jurisdiction since they had finished their last exams. He said he was sad over the death and injury, but, "These three students were not living in the school hostel but outside in town. That was due to a disciplinary decision taken earlier about them by the school."
The Dosco trio "was out with some friends from other schools in the valley. They had got together to celebrate the end of examinations at a bar. But when they learnt that two Doon School teachers had found out about the event, the party was shifted to a farm house on East Canal Road where they all got drunk," said a police source.
"All the students at the party had about four cars. After the party, they were racing on Rajpur Road, when the motorcyclists were hit by the car in which police found I-Cards and notebooks of these three boys."
Based on the I-Cards and eyewitness accounts, police concluded these three boys were in the car that hit the motorcycle near the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped in the Jakhan police chowki area on Rajpur Road.
In another development, police said the car DL-3CAK-5828 was registered to a person identified as Jyoti Gandhi of Delhi's Dilshad Garden.
One of the two victims Vikrant Singh died in hospital, while the other, Rahul Sharma, is on ventilator at the Himalayan Institute Hospital in Jollygrant.
Police has seized the car and a case has been registered, based on a complaint filed by Vikrant's father.
Bajpai said the boys were technically no longer under the school's authority. "They are then free to do what they wish to. We can only hope that they do not do anything wrong," he said.
He said the school had cooperated with the police in its investigation and would continue to do so. "We have passed a message to their parents regarding this, but beyond that, neither the boys nor their parents have confided in us," Bajpai said, adding that the matter was now "between the parents and the police. Though we too are waiting to know what happened."