New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: A day after veteran Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi met with a vicious accident at the Mumbai-Pune expressway, an FIR was registered against her driver -- Amlesh Yogendra Kamat -- for ‘rash driving’.
The FIR has been registered by Rajesh Pandurang Shinde, the truck driver whose vehicle was hit from behind by Shabana Azmi's car, reported news agency ANI.
"Due to rash driving by the driver, the car hit the moving truck on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway which resulted in the accident," the FIR copy read.
Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi on Saturday met with an accident after her car crashed with a truck at Mumbai-Pune Express Highway near Khalapur toll plaza Maharashtra's Raigad district over 60 km from Mumbai.
Soon after the accident, she was rushed to MGM Hospital in Navi Mumbai and was later shifted to the multi-speciality Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai's Andheri. According to doctors, the actress is stable now but is still under observation.
Raigad Police: Actor Shabana Azmi&her driver got injured in accident near Kahalpur on Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Javed Akhtar was also present in the car, but he is safe. Their vehicle was hit by a truck while they were travelling from Pune to Mumbai. Injured shifted to MGM Hospital https://t.co/bezuNWvUTa pic.twitter.com/8YWtZoEUSF
— ANI (@ANI) January 18, 2020
“She is stable and under observation,” Executive Director and CEO of Ambani hospital Dr. Santosh Shetty said in a statement on Saturday evening.
After the incident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his concern Azmi meeting with an accident and wished her speedy recovery. In a tweet, PM Modi said that the news of Shabana Azmi's injury was distressing.
"The news of Shabana Azmi Ji's injury in an accident is distressing. I pray for her quick recovery," PM Modi tweeted on Saturday evening.
The photos from the accident site on the social media shows Shabana Azmi being helped out of the car with her eye and face can be seen severely swollen. The impact of the accident was so hard that the front passenger's side of the SUV was completely destroyed. Another photo shows the bonnet of the car crushed with wrecked radiator.
Last night, Azmi celebrated her husband and legendary lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar's 75th birthday in Mumbai. The two were spotted in various parties hosted in honour of Javed's special day. Many pictures of eventful Thursday and Friday nights are doing the rounds on social media.