THE SUPREME Court has directed a trial court in Ahmedabad to frame charges in the ongoing July 2023 hit-and-run case at the ISKCON flyover in Vadodara that killed nine persons, pointing out that the eventual outcome of a discharge petition by the key accused, Tathya Patel, that is pending before the Gujarat High Court, would be applicable to the trial.

The bench of Justices M M Sundaresh and Satish Chandra Sharma, in an order dated November 3, directed the trial court in Ahmedabad to proceed with framing of charges in the case. The SC was hearing a petition filed by Patel seeking regular bail in the case after an August 4 order of the Gujarat High Court rejected a petition praying for regular bail.

During the course of the hearing, Patel’s lawyers submitted that the trial court was yet

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