In yet another shocking incident, a 55-year-old man was hit by a speeding innova and dragged for almost 25 metres at Bhai Veer Singh Marg in New Delhi’s Mandir Marg area on Tuesday, police said.
The man died minutes after being hit by the speeding vehicles, said police, adding that after mowing down the man, the accused quickly put the injured man inside the car. He tried to mislead the people that he was taking the injured to the RMl hospital for treatment but instead dropped the victim on a footpath in the next block and fled, said officials.
According to a senior police official, the deceased has been identified as Amrit lal, who was an ice cream vendor. Police have arrested the accused identified as Surjit Kumar, who works as a driver at a hotel in Central Delhi’s Paharganj.
The incident occurred on Tuesday night at 11:45 am, after lal deposited his quality walls ice-cream cart back to the godown, he was walking back towards a nearby bus station to catch a bus to his home in Kali Bari Marg.
“lal lived in a jhuggi at Kali Bari Marg. While going towards the bus stand, he was hit by an over-speeding innova and was dragged for almost 25 metres. lal’s godown workers who were present at the spot saw the horrific incident and ran towards the car,” said the official.
“After the accident, lal was bleeding profusely from the head and his back was severely injured. The driver put lal in his vehicle and went away. We went to the RMl hospital but hospital authorities told us that he was not admitted to the hospital. We then went to lady Harding hospital and Kalavati hospital but the victim was not admitted there too,” said Sushil Kumar, lal’s co-worker who had reported the matter to the police.
Around 6:30 am, cops called Sushil saying that they have found an unconscious person at Peshwa road on the backside side of a Government allotted flat and asked him to come over to identify him.
“On reaching the spot, I found that the injured person was lal. The police van then immediately rushed the victim to lady Harding hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” said Sushil.
Police then sent the body for post-mortem and a team was rushed to the accused’s house in Paharganj and he was arrested.