India, Feb. 25 -- The Tardeo police have charged 20-year-old Sayyam Rakesh Sakhala, whose Swift D'zire car had crashed into a road divider on Coastal Road near Haji Ali resulting in the death of 19-year-old Gargi Vitthal Chate on February 8, for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The police, who had initially applied Section 106 (causing death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), said penal sections for the serious charge was added after the family of the deceased lodged a separate complaint at the Gangapur police station in Nashik under section 105 of the BNS.

The father of the deceased, Vitthal Chate, said in his statement to the police that his daughter was forcefully taken by the accused who, despite knowing ...