India, Jan. 6 -- Balwant Singh, 33, the son of a sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator in Chhattisgarh, was arrested and released on bail in a hit-and-run case in which a motorcyclist sustained serious injuries, police said on Tuesday.

Singh was booked under sections 125(a) (act endangering personal safety of others) and 281 (rash and negligent driving) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which are bailable offences. He is son of Renuka Singh, the legislator from Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST) constituency, who was also a union minister of state for tribal affairs between 2019 and 2023.

The accident took place around 1am on Monday at Salasar Chowk when the victim, Tribhuvan Singh (34), a disc jockey, was returning home to Telibandha ...