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Sonika death case: Court sends arrested Bengali actor Vikram Chatterjee to three-day police remand
Kolkata, July 7 (IBNS): Bengali actor Vikram Chatterjee, who has been arrested in connection with model Sonika Chauhan's death, was remanded to three-day police custody by a court here on Friday.
He was arrested from southern Kolkata's Kasba area at around 12:30 am on Friday.
The actor was produced in a Alipore court.
He will be produced before the same court again on July 10.
On Apr 29, Sonika Chauhan was killed and Chatterjee was seriously injured after their speeding sedan, which was being driven by Chatterjee that day, lost its control and crashed into a pavement near Lake Mall in south Kolkata's Rash Behari Avenue area.
Chatterjee in the initial stages of probe, denied to be in the drunken state when the accident happened. Though medical reports did not clarify whether he was drunk or not, it was proved that the car was driven at a very high speed.
However, Chatterjee later confessed that he had consumed some alcohol on the accident night.
The arrested actor is a popular face on Bengali television as he was playing a lead role in one of the daily soaps. Vikram also acted in several Bengali films.
(With inputs by Deepayan Sinha)
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