New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police have booked pan masala baron K.K. Mishra’s son, Shivam, in a case of over-speeding of a Lamborghini sports car that ran into a parked motorcycle in Kanpur Sunday, injuring people and triggering local outrage.
Kanpur Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal told reporters Monday that relying on an eyewitness—also injured in the crash—police had filed an FIR without identifying anyone, since the complainant had not named Shivam Mishra as the man behind the wheel. They, however, added Shivam’s name to the FIR Monday after an investigation, he added.
The FIR had been filed at the Gwaltoli police station under sections 125 (a & b) (rash or negligent acts endangering human life or personal safety), 281 (rash or negligent driving/riding on a public way that endangers human life or personal safety), and 324 (4) (mischief) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
“The vehicle, Lamborghini, has been seized. The investigation has revealed that Shivam Mishra, the son of K.K. Mishra, had been driving the vehicle. Bouncers in a BMW car behind the Lamborghini pulled Shivam Mishra out of the car after the accident. Possibly, he had suffered shock and was taken to the hospital,” Lal told reporters in a press conference Monday.
In a related development, the Kanpur Police Commissioner Monday stripped the Gwaltoli Police station SHO of his posting and attached him to the police line. “He has been reprimanded for dereliction in duty,” Lal told ThePrint.
Shivam is the son of industrialist K.K. Mishra, director of the tobacco company Banshidhar Group and well-known face in the Kanpur region. In operation since 1931, the firm has supplied several pan masala products.
Lal said that a person was injured in the accident and admitted to a hospital, but was later discharged, and that the FIR was registered based on the injured person’s police complaint.
According to the FIR—a copy of which ThePrint has seen—the accident happened in the Gwaltoli area at 1.45 pm, close to the Jhula Park intersection in the city. The speeding Lamborghini, which had a Delhi registration number, came from the side of the VIP road, barging into a stationary Bullet motorcycle near the complainant, leaving him injured.
“…was standing on the roadside near Jhula Park intersection at approximately 1.45 pm today, on 8.2.2026, when a Lamborghini car, vehicle number DL 11 CF 4018, coming from Paramat on VIP Road, at high speed, and recklessly, hit the Bullet motorcycle parked next to me and also hit me hard, causing serious internal and external injuries to my left leg and damaging the Bullet motorcycle,” the complainant had submitted.
Multiple videos of the accident and its aftermath went viral on social media, purportedly showing bouncers accompanying Shivam Mishra and shielding him from the public who confronted the pan masala baron’s son after the accident.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)