Gurugram: Man dies, 5 hurt as auto flips inside Golf Course Road underpass

The deceased, identified as Sajid Ansari, was a native of Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, and lived in Kapashera, Delhi

Published on: Mar 31, 2025, 23:46:14 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 36-year-old passenger died, while five others were injured after a speeding auto-rickshaw lost balance and flipped inside an underpass on Golf Course Road near Sector 42 late Saturday night, police said on Monday.

Gurugram: Man dies, 5 hurt as auto flips inside Golf Course Road underpass

The deceased, identified as Sajid Ansari, was a native of Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, and lived in Kapashera, Delhi, with his wife. According to police, Ansari, who worked at an office on Golf Course Road, had boarded the auto around 11.30pm to return home when the accident took place.

“The driver was speeding and flipped the auto on its side while changing lanes. Passengers had repeatedly asked him to slow down, but he didn’t,” said Gurugram Police’s public relations officer, Sandeep Kumar.

Ansari suffered a severe head injury, while others sustained minor wounds, police said. The driver and a passenger, Rajendra Kumar, took Ansari to the Civil Hospital in Sector 10, where doctors declared him dead on arrival, they added. The driver, meanwhile, fled from the hospital but has been identified; efforts are underway to trace him, Kumar added.

According to police, an FIR was registered under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at DLF Phase-I police station on Sunday based on a complaint by Ansari’s wife, Rukhsana Khatoon. The body was handed over to the family after an autopsy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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