A nine-year-old boy was killed on Thursday after his bicycle was allegedly hit by a car driven by an assistant professor of DU’s Bhagini Nivedita College in South-west Delhi’s Chawla area, police said on Friday.
According to a senior police official, the accused has been identified as 40-year-old Anupama Aggarwal, who was heading back to her home for Jaffarpur Kalan, where the college is situated on Thursday afternoon.
The deceased has been identified as Nitesh, a Class VIth student. “The assistant professor was talking on phone while driving when suddenly the boy, who was riding a bicycle, came in front of her. Unable to control her car, she rammed into the bicycle and crushed the boy,” said the police official.
Shocked by the accident, the woman got out of her car and immediately took the boy, who was bleeding profusely, to the hospital and later to Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital in Jaffarpur where the boy succumbed to his injuries, said the police. “The woman then went to the Chawla police station and told police about the incident and confessed to committing the crime,” said the official.
An FIR under sections 279 (rash driving) and 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC was lodged. Anupama was arrested and later granted bail, said the officer. The deceased lived at Roshanpura and his father Mukesh worked as a labourer, police said.