Drunk student crushes 3 in Janakpuri

NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old management student allegedly ran over two men, killing them on the spot and injured a third person at Janakpuri in West Delhi. Police said

NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old management student allegedly ran over two men, killing them on the spot and injured a third person at Janakpuri in West Delhi. Police said he was driving drunk.

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Police said Rishab Rawat had 159 mg alcohol per 100 ml of blood in his body, which is over five times more than the permissible limit of 30 mg.

Failing to control his car, the accused, a final year IP University BBA student, allegedly hit the three men within three minutes. Rawat, resident of Janakpuri and son of a businessman, was driving a Honda City car.

Rawat told police the car was gifted to him by his father last year.

The accident was reported at around 6am from outside the main road of the C4 and C5 block in Janakpuri. Police said, Rawat who was returning from a party at his friends house in Hari Nagar, first ran over Kameshwar Prasad (45) at Dada Santram Mamtani Marg killing him on the spot.

He took a right turn towards the C3 road and allegedly hit Santosh, 40, a car cleaner around 100 metres from the first accident spot. Rawat, who police said had lost control panicked, took a right turn and hit Ashwani Anand (67) in front of the C4-E market area. Anand too died on the spot. Santosh has been admitted to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.

Prasad was an upper division clerk in the Ministry of Information and Technology. Anand ran a tyre business in West Delhi.

A CCTV footage of Rawat’s car hitting Anand shows the vehicle was speeding on the wrong side of the road. The footage shows Anand walking with a friend seconds before the accident.

While Anand is seen walking on the side where other cars are parked, the footage shows Rawat’st’s speed-speeding car hit him head on sending him flying at least 10-15 metres away. Eyewitnesses, including Anand’ friend said it appeared the car was over 100 km\hr.

DCP (West) Pushpendra Kumar said Rawat fled the accident spot after hitting the three men. Constable Bakol Pravesh, an eyewitness to the first accident, chased the car. “Our officer arrested Rawat after a chase of around 400 metres,” said Kumar.

A case of causing death due to negligence was filed against him. Rawat’s father owns a hardware shop in South Extension market.

INTERROGATION

Rawat was held at about 6.20am but police sources said they were able to interrogate him only after 10am. Rawat who was heavily drunk, police said, could barely speak.

“When he came to his senses, he claimed that on Sunday night, there was a party at his friends place near Hari Nagar. After a night of heavy drinking he slept at around 4am at the same place. He woke up at around 5.30am and got into his car,” an officer said.