Who Is Rakshit Chaurasia, Law Student Who Mowed Down Woman With His Speeding Car?
Rakshit Chaurasia got out of his mangled Volkswagen and shouted ‘Nikita, Nikita’ followed by ‘Another Round, Another Round!’
The driver of the speeding Volkswagen who killed a woman after crashing into her two-wheeler on Thursday night and injured two others was identified as Rakshit Chaurasia, a law student from Varanasi. He was allegedly driving the car in an inebriated condition. The incident took place near Amrapali Complex and the incident was captured on CCTV.
Passersby also captured the aftermath of the accident on the phones, videos of which have now gone viral on social media. Chaurasia got out of the car after he crashed onto the two-wheeler and shouted ‘Nikita, Nikita!’ and then paced about. At one point, he even shouted ‘Another Round, Another Round!’ before chanting ‘Om Namah Shivay’ twice, as people gathered around him and started to thrash him.
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Videos that emerged later of the incident showed people parading him around while thrashing him for the loss of lives he caused and handing him over to the police.
Rakshit remains in police custody and the other person with him who was inside the car, Meet Chauhan, was also arrested. Meet is the owner of the Volkswagen Virtus GT Plus (Black).
Rakshit studies in the Faculty of Law at MS University in Vadodara and hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi. According to witnesses, the car was being driven at a speed of 100 kmph and because the driver took a sharp turn, it ended up hitting the two-wheeler.
“A car was moving from Sangam to Muktananad crossroad. It met with an accident while overspeeding. The police reached the spot and arrested one accused, Rakshit Ravish Chaurasia. One woman has died and four others are injured. It is a case of drinking and driving," Gujarat Police official Panna Momaya was quoted as saying by news agencies.
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