The Madras High Court has confirmed the conviction of a lorry driver in a criminal case booked against him for having caused the death of four passengers when the vehicle capsized while crossing a temporary bridge put up across the Tiruvaimoor irrigation channel at Kolappad-Tirukkuvalai Road in Nagapattinam district.
Justice G. Jayachandran however modified the quantum of sentence imposed on the driver Chakkravarthy from one year of simple imprisonment to two months of simple imprisonment. The leniency was shown since the convict’s driving licence had also been ordered to be suspended for a month after the accident.
The appeal had been preferred against a judgement passed by a Sessions Court in Nagapattinam in 2014 convicting the driver under four counts of Section 304A (causing death by negligence) of Indian Penal Code and ordering him to undergo one year of simple imprisonment for each count concurrently.
