Hyderabad student, 3 others booked for dangerous driving, car stunts and assault on cop during chase

Hyderabad: A case was registered against a 19-year-old degree student and three others for alleged dangerous driving and performing stunts using a modified car, police said on Sunday. The incident happened on Saturday night in an area under Raidurgam Police station limits. The car carrying four people was driven at a high speed while performing stunts-like racing with the vehicle fitted with altered silencer creating loud noise, police said. A police team tried to stop them, but the vehicle rider refused to comply and sped away, a police official said.

The police personnel chased and caught the driver while three occupants in the car ran away, he said. During the incident, one constable sustained minor injury on his left hand when the car driver attempted to escape, he said. "The person driving the vehicle has been taken into custody. He was found to be driving the car without proper license," the official further said.

He has been booked on charge of dangerous driving, causing injury to the government official while discharging duty, alteration of vehicle, police said. A case was registered against the car driver, a second-year degree student along with three occupants, police said adding they were causing disturbance to the public.

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The police also booked the car owner under relevant sections of MV Act for allowing an unauthorised person to drive his vehicle, police added.