India, Jan. 20 -- A Pune sessions court on Saturday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Pratap Daingade, 49, an IT professional from Nerul in Navi Mumbai, accused of ramming his car into the valet counter of Toit restaurant in Kalyaninagar, killing a 30-year-old staff on November 30 last year. The court order was uploaded on the court's website on Monday.

The order was passed by additional sessions judge PR Choudhary, who held that prima facie material showed Daingade was intoxicated and had knowledge that he was unfit to drive, attracting provisions of Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Daingade is accused of driving his Volkswagen into the valet area of the ...