India, Oct. 29 -- The additional district judge, whose 17-year-old son allegedly drove a Mercedes-Benz into a scooter and killed a street food vendor in Kochi, told the Kerala high court on Thursday that he did not know his son had taken the car and learnt about the accident only after receiving a phone call.

Notably, the judge had approached the high court for anticipatory bail in a case registered against him under the Motor Vehicles Act. The court granted him relief.

Justice Kauser Edappagath, who heard the plea, noted that the police had already questioned the judge for four hours and said he would cooperate with the investigation. "There is no scope for custodial interrogation. Necessarily, he has to be granted protection. He is a ...