Hema Malini blaming father of victim

Dear Hema Malini, it's time to shut up and stop blaming Dausa victim's father

The actor's driver has been accused of speeding. Who knows whether Hema Malini had instructed her driver not to speed. She's not said anything either way. The Times of India quotes the police as saying the following about the accident: "The impact of the over-speeding was such that after colliding with the Alto on the Jaipur-Agra national highway near Dausa, the Mercedes turned in the opposite direction, skidded for almost 50 metres and jumped over the road divider before coming to a halt, police said. Only a small portion of the Alto came in contact with the Mercedes, but the impact was enough to kill the girl and badly injure other passengers of the Alto."

So Hema Malini, whose own car had broken the speed limit, accused the other family of breaking traffic rules. That's kind of rich.

When a section of social media users was slamming her for speeding away to Jaipur in a car to get herself treated, an equal number argued that she was quite grievously hurt herself. They said that it would perhaps have been impossible for her to have registered what was going on around her and helped the family.

However, with this one tweet she confirmed the many allegations that her critics have directed at her. What Hema Malini did with one tweet was squander the benefit of doubt many rational people had extended to her. Indeed, if she can squarely blame the dead child's father for her death without any congnisable proof, she seems not that far removed from a callous VIP who would have walked away leaving a car full of bleeding aam aadmi behind.