Akhil had just a glass of wine

HYDERABAD: Akhil is a teetotaler and hates boozing, according to his father. However, on a pre-Christmas event, the budding racer had a glass of wine which landed him in the hands of traffic police.Akhil Khushlani appeared in court on Wednesday and paid a fine of Rs2,000 for drunk driving. He then took away his BMW car was seized by Marredpally police. The young racer had missed his scheduled court date on Monday. "Akhil is a teetotaller. He never indulges in pubbing or partying. He just had a glass of wine along with his friends and was caught for drunken driving,'' Dinesh Khushlani, his father, told Express. He also raised some doubts on breath analysers, the instruments used by police to check drivers for alcohol content in their body. "I don't know how these machines are functioning. Though Akhil just had a single peg of wine, the analyser showed he was drunk," he said. R Kalinga Rao, traffic inspector, Maredpally said Akhil appeared before the court and paid Rs2,000 fine. "He later paid his challan and took back his seized BMW car" he added. Akhil has won fifth place at the World Karting Championships- 2005 at Langkawi in Malaysia and became the first Asian to do so in any motor sport contest.