Four days after a speeding car ran over a four-year-old boy while he was playing outside his house in Peer Muchalla, Zirakpur, police on Sunday arrested the driver of the car.
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The accused, Renu Sirohi of Peer Muchalla. will be produced before a local court on Monday.
The child, Prince, was struck by the car, a Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire, around 11 am on Thursday. Renu had fled the spot after the incident but was captured in a nearby CCTV camera.
As Prince’s father, Varinder Kumar, tried to rush him to the hospital on his motorcycle, he was delayed by a punctured tyre.On reaching the civil hospital in Sector 6, Panchkula, the child was declared dead.
Police on Thursday had registered a case against the accused.