Hema Malini fine, driver held for child’s death

aipur, July 3: Film actor and BJP MP Hema Malini, injured in a car crash in Rajasthan that killed a child, is doing “fine”, doctors said on Friday, even as police arrested her driver for rash driving.Hema Malini was injured near Dausa, over 50 km from here, when her car rammed into another car coming from the opposite direction, leaving a five-year-old child in that vehicle dead.“She is fine and conscious. She is on liquid diet now,” said Prateem Tamboli of Fortis Escorts Hospital here where she was admitted after the Thursday night accident.”She is presently under our post operative intensive care unit,” a hospital statement said. If her health continues to show improvement, she may be discharged on Friday, Tamboli said. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje visited her at the hospital on Friday. Earlier, Hema Malini’s car driver, Mahesh Thakur, was arrested on charges of rash driving and causing death by negligence besides other offences, police said.”We have arrested the driver, a resident of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh,” a police officer at Dausa told IANS over phone.