An 11-year-old girl student was mowed down by a speeding car while other students escaped with minor injuries when they were waiting for their school bus in the early morning hours on Thursday.
Police said that two school girls were hit by a speeding car near Yadav restaurant and were rushed to a nearby hospital where one of them was declared dead while other escaped with minor injuries. The deceased was identified as Garima Shivdasani of Kailash Nagar and was a student of Navneet School.
The driver of the vehicle bearing registration number MP 04 CA 9856 lost control over the vehicle and rammed into a divider before hitting the deceased which caused her death.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem and a case under section 304 A of the IPC was registered against the errant driver. The accused driver Kanhaiya Divnani was arrested by the police and vehicle was seized during the investigation.
Meanwhile, a 27-year-old youth committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling at lake Pearl Garden society under Koh-e-Fiza police station area on Wednesday.
Police said that the deceased Nasir Kalam was found hanging with the ceiling and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead. The body was sent for the post mortem and the police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation.