Hema Malini blames father of child killed in car accident

Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini has been criticised for leaving the site of an accident involving her Mercedes and a Maruti Alto last Thursday, in which a two-year-old was killed.

In tweets today, she blamed the child's father for not following traffic rules, reports NDTV.

The two-year-old girl was killed instantly and her six-year-old brother is in the Intensive Care Unit or ICU at a Jaipur hospital with fractures in both arms and both legs.

They were travelling in the Alto with their parents and another relative; all of them were injured.

Witnesses at the site of the accident in Dausa in Rajasthan said that Hema Malini, who was injured on the forehead, was driven away to Jaipur soon after the car crash in a private vehicle by a local BJP leader.

Her assistant who was travelling with her, and the driver of her Mercedes also left with her.

The driver was arrested later in the night and has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

He has been granted bail.