Two men were killed while two others sustained grievous injuries when a 32-year-old man ran over his Etios car over them while they were sitting on a pavement under the Monkey Bridge in North Delhi’s Kashmere Gate area on Saturday afternoon.
The fatal accident took place at the same underpass two months after four pavement dwellers were mowed down by a speeding i-20 car driven by an 18-year-old boy leaving one dead and three others injured.
According to police, identity of the two victims is yet to be established while the two injured men have been identified as Arshad and Deepak.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Jatin Narwal said, “Two persons died and two were injured when an Etios car coming from Rajghat climbed on a pavement under the Monkey Bridge on Saturday noon. All the victims are road dwellers. The deceased are yet to be identified while the injured persons are Arshad and Deepak. The driver Harish Kumar has been arrested.”
Another senior police official said that the accident happened when Harish Kumar, a guest teacher with a Gover-nment school in Yamuna Vihar. was returning from Faridabad.
Harish had taken his uncle’s Etios car to Faridabad and was returning home in Usmanpur area.
Harish claimed that the accident took place while he was trying to save a beggar, who was crossing the road, and turned to the left. However, he ended up taking the car over the pavement.
Police sources said that the accused driver was nabbed by a beat constable Sonu.
Meanwhile, a team from the Kashmere Gate police station rushed the victims to Aruna Asif Ali Hospital, where two persons were declared brought dead while two are undergoing treatment.
Police said that they are showing pictures of the two deceased to other pavement dwellers to establish their identities. Police added that a case under relevant Sections of the IPC has been registered at the Kashmere Gate police station.
In a similar accident on the same stretch on April 20, a 30-year-old man died while three other pavement dwellers sustained grievous injuries after they were run over by an 18-year-old school boy, a student of DPS Mathura Road.
Months after the accident, the deaceased remained unidentified. Following the accident, the Delhi Police had booked the 18-year-old boy under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), a non-bailable offence of the IPC.