NDTV reported that vice president (legal) of Reliance Industries and former Talwar Thakore Associates managing associate Janhavi Gadkar had allegedly killed two persons in a taxi while driving her Audi Q3 drunk in Mumbai last night on the wrong side of a major freeway.
The 35 year old lawyer has been arrested by police, after killing Mohd Salim Saboowala, 50, and the taxi’s driver Mohd Hussain Sayaed, 57. Three passengers survived the crash which mangled the taxi and caused heavy damage to the Audi.
She has been booked with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash driving, said the police, relying on video evidence shot minutes before the crash.
She had worked at TTA between 2007 and 2013, according to her Linked in profile.
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Once you are in the employed in a Company you have to give up ur sanad/bar licence.
Or she could still be on the Bar Council rolls and only have a retainer-ship contract with Reliance.
May be she was on a retainer with the company. May be she was appearing as Advocate for the company before the High Court.
Probably more that 'successful' is really narrowly understood and such 'successful' ppl are equally prone to doing stupid things.
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@Dante - Please stop speaking to the world like you speak to your juniors. Next you'll be jumping around over a semi-colon.
Sorry my comment should have been here. She was from GLC Bombay - 2002 batch.
GLC Mumbai - 2002 batch
www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Janhavi-is-a-good-hardworking-and-helpful-kid-say-former-colleagues/articleshow/47606960.cms
Wait and watch, some poor soul in Delhi will get his / her livelihood snatched away because we cannot accept change, technological progress, honest businesses and convinience in society.
We are doomed to be ruled by crooked people and people under influence of such crooked people; like in Delhi. Because, hey, if public is convinienced, who will line the pockets of the uneducated government minsters and their servants ?
What about all the licensed cab operators out there who took the time to actually comply with the law?!?!?
Lets allow anyone to run a cab company without any verification process because, hey!, otherwise we have drunk drivers!
Really!!! That's about as idiotic as I've seen on LI today, and that's quite a high standard
And before you say you're not condoning, merely saying this is inevitable blah blah, lets take your comment apart bit by bit.
"This is what happens when you ban companies like Uber/ Ola in Delhi who were actutally doing yeoman's service trying to get party animals safely back home."
Actually, this happened even when Uber and Ola were operating, and will continue to happen after as well. Uber/Ola weren't doing Yeoman's service, they were providing a service for which they were being paid, and they were doing this illegally.
"Wait and watch, some poor soul in Delhi will get his / her livelihood snatched away because we cannot accept change, technological progress, honest businesses and convinience in society."
Actually, Uber as a company, across the world, has been stealing people's livelihoods through using unfair means of competition--read up a bit. Ola just cost a whole lot of people their credit card details as well. Change and New technology is good, low quality service that is only cheaper because it doesn't have regulatory compliance costs is not. And anyone who calls Uber an honest business is either paid for or completely naive
"We are doomed to be ruled by crooked people and people under influence of such crooked people; like in Delhi. Because, hey, if public is convinienced, who will line the pockets of the uneducated government minsters and their servants ?"
Randomm two sentences that are meaningless in the context of the article. Also, the semi-colon is wrongly placed. But hey, who cares about meaning, context, or relevant, right?
Noone is condoning drunk driving, the comment refers to the fact that if there was a means of transport which people trust enough when they go out at night, then they would not get behind the wheel of their own car but rather avail it. So, before jumping in to defend transport unions and mafia run autos, one needs to understand the essence of conversation.
Also, since you would prefer to take things line by line, let's do this again:
What about all the licensed cab operators out there who took the time to actually comply with the law?!?!?
The so called licensed cab operators have merely applied for / have been granted a permit and got themselves affiliated to the RTOA in Delhi. None of them claim to have an authentic hundred percent verification system in place for all their drivers and all their cars. In fact, there are quite a few cases of the permit being issued to one driver and another driver driving the car without any identification whatsoever. Add to that, the tardiness, the general cleanliness of the cars, and the attitude of the drivers and the answer is clear which company would be a first choice for the willing customer. Further, there have been criminal acts in these vehicles also, but surprisingly the entire fleet has been never banned.
Also, it is very surprising that only the Delhi government seems to have a problem with these operators wheras elsewhere operations are running smoothly.
Lets allow anyone to run a cab company without any verification process because, hey!, otherwise we have drunk drivers!
Uber generally represents itself as an information technology company which uses an app to facilitate interaction and provision of a service between the car owner (known as a driver partner) and the passenger. It does not represent itself as a cab company. Further, the operations of Uber and Ola have even been recognized in the state of West Bengal as an information technology company and not a cab operator. In reference to "we are drunk drivers", refer portion of comment relating to trust above.
However, the verification process of driver partners needs to be completed within the full extent of the law and this is the only sentence in your long tirade I can agree with.
Actually, this happened even when Uber and Ola were operating, and will continue to happen after as well. Uber/Ola weren't doing Yeoman's service, they were providing a service for which they were being paid, and they were doing this illegally.
The day after the supposed ban came into place in Delhi, a simple scan of sample FB profiles/ twitter handles would reveal the extent of despair within young people who had found one simple, reasonable solution to commute to and fro, at late hours. The simple point is nobody in Delhi trusts the autos at night and there is even less trust for these so called "registered cabs" who sit on street corners and even try to commute people without going through the system. The legality and illegality of the operation is confined to the verification process which is not 100 % complete even in RTOA registered cabs and if one state in India can recognize a company as an "information technology company" they are well within their rights to assume the same in other states given their business model.
Further, both companies,as we speak, have also applied for permits which are being delayed. Also, please note that both companies presently do not take commission from their drivers, but operate on the "Poocho" model app adopted from the DIMTS for hailing autos in the NCT, which is a government operation. Hence, the delay in issuing permits is quite confounding.
Hence, the question is the application of a better, cheap, reasonable service which had proved itself within a short time vis-a-vis carriages which can't even turn up in neat and clean and undamaged cars, forget providing a reasonably safe service.
Change and New technology is good, low quality service that is only cheaper because it doesn't have regulatory compliance costs is not. And anyone who calls Uber an honest business is either paid for or completely naive
If you are from Delhi, then the phrase "low quality service" applied to Uber /Ola compared to normal radio cabs, autos, transporter cabs really does not apply. The people who use the service are testimony to that. See above.
Also, the semi-colon is wrongly placed.
A semi-colon (;) is a punctuation mark that separates major sentence elements. A semicolon can be used between two closely related independent clauses, provided they are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction (See Genrally, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon, last accessed 11 June 2015)
Have given a link from wikipedia because figured any other slightly technical source may go above your head.
In the sentence, "We are doomed to be ruled by crooked people and people under influence of such crooked people; like in Delhi..."; there are two distinct sentence elements. The first one talks about a prediction when subject to the rule of "crooked" people, the second refers to the place of such rule i.e. "Delhi".
Since, there is no coordinating conjuction like and/or/but, the semi colon is correctly used to separate the two major sentence elements.
Finally, wading in to defend shoddy services with little professionalism seems to be a little immature. Perhaps a little reading and knowledge of grammar / syntax would do wonders.
Small disclaimer : I am not affiliated with Uber/Ola in any way. I have used the services of all the leading companies and in process have had detailed conversations with drivers etc driving for all of them. Hence, a contextual arguement was advanced.
But given that she is Vice President Legal at Reliance and drove an Audi, she could have afforded a driver or asked the hotel to get her a cab, hotel cabs even if more expensive are always safe. Her Audi would have been safe at the hotel overnight. She was not really dependent upon Uber etc.
So this whole Uber spiel on this thread sounds irrelevant to me.
The friend she was with at the hotel should also have gotten her into a cab given the amount of whiskey she had allegedly consumed according to news reports. Not blaming anyone, but a lesson for all of us.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3068027/Woman-22-tweeted-2-drunk-care-killing-two-best-friends-wrong-way-crash-sentenced-24-years-prison.html
www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-drunk-driving-accident-i-had-whisky-for-fun-says-advocate/16281191
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