Gurugram: Speeding truck mows down mother, her 8-month-old son on Delhi-Jaipur eway

Police said Kumar had reached Bhora Kalan in Pataudi with his wife and son on his motorcycle to get her admitted to a private college for her higher studies.

Published on: Dec 11, 2025, 04:10:05 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 26-year-old woman along with her 10-month-old son were killed after a speeding truck mowed them down at the Bilaspur chowk on Delhi-Jaipur expressway on Tuesday evening, police said on Wednesday.

Police said, the truck driver sped away from the spot immediately.

The deceased were identified as Nirma Devi and Ayansh. The woman’s husband Birju Kumar, 29, was also injured in the accident. They were originally from Bihar’’s Gaya Ji district and lived in Nasirpur in south-west Delhi.

Police said Kumar had reached Bhora Kalan in Pataudi with his wife and son on his motorcycle to get her admitted to a private college for her higher studies.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, said the couple was returning home when a speeding truck hit Kumar’s motorcycle at the chowk.

“Kumar fell to his left while his wife along with her son in lap fell towards the carriageway on right and were run over by the truck resulting in their instant death,” he said, adding the truck driver sped away from the spot immediately.

On the complaint of the injured husband, an FIR was registered against the unidentified truck driver under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Bilaspur police station on Tuesday night.

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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