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Two men accused of running over Kolkata man and failed abduction bid of daughter in law arrested
The police, however, have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the driver of the unidentified ambulance.
Kolkata police on Wednesday evening arrested two men accused of involvement in running over a 50-year old man late last night in the city and seized the ambulance they were driving. The case, however, took a new twist with the daughter-in-law of the victim claiming today that the men in the ambulance had tried to abduct her minutes before running over her father-in-law.
While the police was trying to verify the fresh claims, it succeeded in arresting the 26-year old driver of the ambulance and his suspected accomplice, a 20-year old resident of Bishnupur in the South-24 Parganas district.
Around midnight on Tuesday, a resident of Christopher Road in Tangra area of the city was hit by an ambulance on Govinda Khatik Road in the same locality, while returning home after attending a marriage ceremony.
He was taken to the state-run NRS Hospital with multiple injuries but could not survive. On Wednesday morning, his daughter-in-law lodged a complaint with Tangra police station alleging the same ambulance had tried to abduct her minutes before.
“Those boarding the ambulance shouted ‘lift her, lift her’ the moment it approached me. As I shouted, my father-in-law and uncle-in-law, who were a few metres ahead of me, came rushing to my rescue. While my uncle-in-law dragged me to a safe distance, the ambulance hit my father-in-law and sped away,” the woman told journalists on Wednesday after lodging the police complaint.
The police had registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the driver of the unidentified ambulance.
“Before starting a fresh FIR on the basis of the woman’s complaint, we need to understand why she did not make this allegation on Tuesday night itself,” said a police officer involved in the investigation.
Joint commissioner of police (crime) Murli Dhar said, “A complaint has been received. The case is being investigated.”
