Hema Malini, actor-MP whose Mercedes-Benz collided with another car in Dausa district of Rajasthan, offered financial assistance to the families of the victims — a child dead and four injured — on Saturday.
The BJP MP, accompanied by her daughter Esha Deol and son-in-law, reached Mumbai by a chartered plane.
Outside Ms. Hema Malini’s Juhu residence, Ms. Deol told presspersons: “My mother will help the families of the victims. She is doing this not because she is a leader, but because she is a good human being as well.”
“When the accident took place [on Thursday night], my mother and the family was not in a condition to comprehend anything, but we are sad that a family has lost a dear one,” Ms. Deol said.
“When the accident happened, she was asleep. She had asked everyone to wear the seatbelts. But suddenly we felt a jolt from the rear. The accident was very bad … It was traumatic, so no one could talk ... or think anything.”
Ms. Deol said the actor had been advised rest.
Ms. Hema Malini was discharged from hospital on Saturday.
“On the request of family members, she was discharged around 9:30 am”, a spokesperson of Fortis Hospital told PTI .
>The 66-year-old actress had undergone a surgery for her wounds at the hospital on Friday. She was also treated for a minor fracture on her nose.
>A four-year-old girl was killed while five others were injured including the actress when Hema’s car collided with another car on Thursday night in Dausa.
Mahesh Chand Thakur, who was driving Hema’s car when it met with the accident, has been arrested at Kotwali Thana in Dausa.
An FIR was lodged against the driver, who hails from Vrindavan, under various sections of IPC including 279 (rash driving) and 304 (A) (causing death by negligence not amounting to culpable homicide).
Thakaur was on Friday produced before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Pallavi Sharma who granted bail to the driver. He was later released on bail.
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