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Who was driving the Aston Martin in the Reliance Car Crash?

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An Aston Martin Rapide – “a four-door high-performance sport saloon†-rammed into two cars late Saturday night, December 7, 2013 at Peddar Road in Mumbai, transforming itself from a Rs 3.5 crore-worth luxury sports car into ugly metal scrap. What has followed since has ranged from subtle innuendos to outright allegations against some of the most powerful and rich of Mumbai – and India. A black Aston Martin Rapide (MH-O1-BK99) – driven at a very high speed according to eyewitnesses – rammed into an Audi (MH14-DN-6666) from behind as reported here. As a result of the impact, the Audi, driven by Foram Ruparel, a resident of Ghatkopar area, jumped the divider on the road and hit a private bus coming from the opposite direction. The Aston Martin, then hit a Hyundai Elantra belonging to Vikram Mishra. In the ensuing chaos, the driver of the Aston Martin managed to flee in one of the two SUVs which were trailing it. A hit-and-run case like this is pretty routine nowadays in Delhi and Mumbai. However, what is not routine – and has been very conveniently overlooked by many in the media – was the fact that the Aston Martin was registered in the name of Reliance Ports and Terminals Limited which is owned by Mukesh Ambani. Foram Ruparel, who was driving the Audi, lodged a complaint. Bansilal Joshi, 55, a driver employed with Reliance, presented himself at the Gamdevi police station on Sunday afternoon – December 8, 2013 – and accepted responsibility for the accident. This was almost 12 hours after the accident. However, as word spread, witnesses have started popping up with their version of events. A version of events, which makes this entire episode seem uncannily similar to the plot of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger where the protagonist, Balram, who works as a driver for a rich family, is made to own up to a very similar car accident his boss’s wife is involved in. One of the occupants of a car hit by the speeding Aston Martin was quoted by Mumbai Mirror – one of the very few media outlets to have covered the story in detail – as saying that she saw a young man in the driver’s seat. Another witness, not willing to be named, told Newslaundry that the person helped out of the Aston Martin after it finally came to a standstill “was a young guy and not a moustached old man as everyone is being made to believeâ€. In a telephonic conversation with Newslaundry, Varish Mishra, who was in the Elantra which was pulverised in the accident and which had a pregnant lady as one of its occupants said, “the Aston Martin continued to travel on three wheels for a long time and came to a halt more than 400 metres away from the original spot of accident, so you can imagine its speedâ€.
http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/12/the-car-crash-that-never-was/
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Definitel not Ambani's sons... There is no way one son runs faster after accident...then there is no chance of another sitting in Aston martin let alsone running from there. In the remote chance of second son sitting in car there is no way it can go fatsre than a auto..

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Definitel not Ambani's sons... There is no way one son runs faster after accident...then there is no chance of another sitting in Aston martin let alsone running from there. In the remote chance of second son sitting in car there is no way it can go fatsre than a auto..
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There is a growing feeling in Mumbai that the Aston Martin Rapide was driven by Akash Ambani, the son of India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani. Yet, evidences are still ‘unavailable’. People who are in charge of the investigation are reluctant to do their duties. We want to know the whole truth. Will it ever get out? Will it be allowed to get out? Even though the social media is talking openly about who was behind the wheels in the accident on Mumbai’s Peddar Road involving a Reliance-registered luxury sports car, an Aston Martin Rapide (MH-01-BK99) worth Rs 4 crore, and two other cars (an Audi and a Hyundai Elantra), it seems the Mumbai police is trying its best to protect the identity of the real culprit. Despite a palpable gag on mainstream Indian media, a number of Mumbai-based newspapers, including the tabloid Mumbai Mirror, have already pointed out that it was Akash Ambani, son of the richest industrialist in the country, Mukesh Ambani, who was on the driver’s seat when the accident, took place at 1:30 am in the early hours of 8 December. Reliance has stated that the car was being driven by a chauffeur and was headed for a ‘ritual maintenance’, but questions have been raised why was it being driven in the opposite direction and that too at 1:30 am on a Sunday. In fact, on Monday, Bansilal Joshi, the 55-year-old chauffeur who works for the Ambanis, ‘surrendered’ before the Gamdevi police, claiming he was driving the Aston Martin at the time of the accident. Two sets of fingerprints have been discovered by forensic experts from the speeding car, and although, the finding of two sets of fingerprints does not directly contradict Joshi’s assertion, the cops are yet to take a stand. But news channels such as Zee 24 Taas claim a ‘fully drunk’ Akash Ambani was at the wheels in the car when the accident took place. Moreover, signals from the mobile tower point out that Bansilal Joshi was not present at the time of the accident. Millennium Post contacted Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police, Mumbai crime branch, who said that the matter ‘did not belong to crime branch, but was under jurisdiction of the local (Gamdevi) police station’. According to Mumbai Mirror, a show-cause notice has been issued against the cop investigating the matter, Assistant Inspector R Pawar, who reports at Gamdevi police branch. [http://bit.ly/1e4XL8p] No arrests have been made even after nine days of the incident, although eyewitnesses of the horrific road mishap claim that a young man, whose description bears a strong resemblance with Akash Ambani, was seen on the driver’s seat, who, they add, later fled in one of two the tailing SUVs that were reportedly following the car for security purposes. The car was last seen at a bash organised by Mukesh Ambani in honour of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, at which Akash Ambani was also present. Only recently, Mukesh Ambani was picked as one among the 25 ‘Greatest Living Legends’ in India by NDTV on the occasion of its 25 years in service. How is it that NDTV Limited - a commercial entity, a listed company in Bombay Stock Exchange - holds a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan? Would the presidential house be available to others for such private, invitation-only functions in future? Or was it that Rashtrapati Bhavan made an exception and obliged NDTV because of President Pranab Mukherjee’s long-standing association with the Ambani family? Mukesh Ambani owns most of the leading news channels of the country and influences, if not downright controls, what they should be and should not be covering. Why is the media silent on this matter, which has not invited a single biting comment from either the Congress or the BJP, with the sole exception of a tweet by J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah? Will Arnab Goswami speak up now because the nation really needs to know.
http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=46946 :popcorn:
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Shows how much our media has sold out to political and corporate interests. Arnab is not shouting at the top of his voice tonight - The nation doesnt demand answers from Reliance. Jessica Laaal mattered and the Nanda story was covered 24x7 on NDTV. Not a peep on this one. What can you expect when Ambani is a part owner

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Shows how much our media has sold out to political and corporate interests. Arnab is not shouting at the top of his voice tonight - The nation doesnt demand answers from Reliance. Jessica Laaal mattered and the Nanda story was covered 24x7 on NDTV. Not a peep on this one. What can you expect when Ambani is a part owner
That doesn't matter - they wouldn't have dared to run such a story against Ambani anyways. No major media company in India will follow this story.
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That doesn't matter - they wouldn't have dared to run such a story against Ambani anyways. No major media company in India will follow this story.
ya ownership matters less here. Probably the only difference is that NDTV would have killed the story even before being asked to
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