India, Oct. 26 -- Police took the 17-year-old son of an additional sessions judge back into custody on Sunday after protests by the family of a man killed when a Mercedes-Benz allegedly driven by the minor rammed into his scooter in Cheranelloor, Kochi.

Police had initially registered a case of causing death by negligence and released the boy on bail from the police station. Following protests by the victim's family and a preliminary investigation indicating the car was being driven at high speed, police invoked Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which deals with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The deceased, Jayabalakrishnan, 55, a resident of South Chittoor, ran a roadside eatery and was returning home on his scoote...