Mumbai: Cops turn blind eye as cricketer drives car into Andheri station

Harmeet Singh Baddhan claimed to have accidentally driven into Andheri stationThe Railway Protection Force RPF has been bowled over by Harmeet Singh Baddhan The former IPL player and Under19 World Cup bowler got away with endangering the lives of commuters at Andheri railway station when he drove his car onto the platform last morning Instead of sending him for an alcohol blood test mdash as is the norm mdash the RPF relied on the most unreliable test of all his body language post incidentAlso read Mumbai Cricketer drives car onto Andheri station platform at rush hourSlow leftarm orthodox spinner Harmeet Singh BaddhanAround 715 am yesterday Baddhan drove his Hyundai Verna onto platform 1 of Andheri station as amused and frightened commuters made way for it He apparently slammed the brakes only when he spotted an escalator He told the Andheri RPF that had been misguided by a passerby and mistakenly entered the platform He claimed that he had tried to reverse the car and head out on realising his folly but was stopped by commutersIngenious rationaleAfter his misguided misadventure he was immediately taken into custody The next step should have been sending him for a test to ascertain if he had been driving under the influence of alcohol But the RPF did nothing of the sortAlso read Watch video Mumbai man drives car onto Andheri railway station platformBeer cans found in his carRPF officials were convinced that since they couldnt smell any liquor on him he was surely sober Whats more incredulous is their rationale behind not sending the former Rajasthan Royals player for a blood alcohol test that his body language betrayed no drunkennessKC Yadav investigating officer reasoned We can make out from a persons behaviour if hes drunk or not We checked him and he didnt seem to be under the influence of alcohol at all Also his breath analysis did not show that he had not consumed any alcohol Thats why we didnt perform a medical test on himBaddhan with RPF personnelEyewitnesses at Andheri station however punctured this claim Feroz a porter said when people at the platform rushed to check on the driver when the car finally pulled over Baddhan appeared drunk He could barely walk straightBeer cans not proofThe police even found a few empty beer cans in the car but Baddhan claimed that they had been around for a long time Defending the police inaction on this finding Yadav said Empty beer cans dont prove anything We cannot say those had been consumed by the driver on the day of the incidentThanks to the RPF going easy on Baddhan mdash he was booked under sections 147 trespass and refusal to desist from trespass 145B commits any nuisance or act of indecency or uses abusive or obscene language 145C wilfully interferes with any amenity provided by the railway administration 154 endangering the safety of persons travelling by railway and 159 disobedience of drivers or conductors of vehicles to directions of railway servant of the Railway Act mdash he was granted bail for a mere R7000 payment