Mumbai: Nooriya Haveliwala, arrested for
mowing down two persons allegedly under the influence of
alcohol, today made another change in her statement even as
police recorded the statements of her friends.
27-year-old Nooriya was arrested on Saturday morning
for ramming her Honda CRV into a bike and a police jeep at
Marine Drive in south Mumbai. The biker Afzal Makhnejiya and a
traffic police sub-inspector Dina Nath Shinde were killed in
the incident.
Deputy Police Commissioner Sanjay Mohite today
interrogated her for a couple of hours when she said that she
did not purchase 13 beer cans as claimed by police during the
events that led to the crash, sources said.
She admitted to have drunk a small quantity of alcohol
but not 450 ml of it, they said.
According to police, Nooriya in her earlier statement
had said she had consumed at least nine cans of beer after
which she again purchased four more cans. Some beer cans were
found in the car.
On Saturday, Nooriya told the police that she lost
control of her car as she was drunk but the next day she
changed her statement claiming that she was speeding and lost
control of her car as some other vehicle was chasing her.
According to police, on Friday afternoon Nooriya went
to visit her friend Varun Tholani, with whom she had consumed
three cans of beer. They then went to Radio club in south
Mumbai where she again drank three more cans of beer.
From there, Varun and Nooriya joined by other friends
Sabia Patel, Arun D'Souza and Amar Mashruwala had gone to pub
Ghetto in Breach Candy area in south Mumbai where she again
consumed three cans of beer.
Meanwhile, police recorded statements of her friends
Varun, Sabia, Arun and Amar. So far, statements of 18 people
have been recored in the case.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 23:42