A 17-year-old girl was killed after she was hit and crushed under the wheels of a tractor near her house in North-west Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar area on Tuesday
morning.
According to police, the deceased, Khushboo was going to school with her friends when a tractor carrying construction material hit her. After hitting the girl, the driver of the tractor fled from the spot.
Surrounded by her relatives and neighbours, Khushboo’s mother Shahzadi Khatun kept muttering to herself that her daughter has gone to get ready for her wedding. Khatun told everyone coming to meet her, “Aap meri beti ki shaadi par aaye hai na. Vo tayyar ho rahi hai”.
According to Milind Dumbere, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest), “The driver of tractor has been identified. Teams have been formed to nab the accused soon.”
Police said that the incident took place on the Burari road outside the D1 block, JJ resettlement colony in Swaroop Nagar area around 6:45am when Khushboo, a student of Class 11 was going to school to attend a practical examination of Home Science subject.
After hitting Khushboo, the errant driver managed to flee the spot.
Eyewitnesses told police that the girl was hit so badly that the tyres had crushed her face and chest and her lower part of the body was severed from the torso. Bleeding profusely on the road, one of the friends informed the family of Khushboo who in turn took the victim to Babu Jag Jivan Ram hospital. Her body was handed over to her family after her post-mortem.
Police registered a case under Section 304 A and 279 of the Indian Penal Code at the Swaroop Nagar police station.
Khushboo’s father Mohammad Farukh, 53, who runs a small shop, stood outside his house in D1 block in JJ Colony. told The Pioneer that Khushboo had on Monday night asked him to bring ingredients for making gajar ka halwa, some apples, kishmish for the Home Science practical in the school.
“Khushboo was fond of cooking and had learnt to prepare various delicacies in her school. She was my youngest child. She was the only girl among five elder brothers. She was a very hard working student” Farukh said.
“She utilised her free time by stitching frocks for kids in the family. One of the most loved amongst the children, Khushboo garnered love and affection from one and all. It was celebrations such as Eid that she got the most number of gifts from us,” said Anjaar, Khushboo’s brother.