A girl studying in class 8 died on Friday after being run over by a DTC bus in East Delhi's New Ashok Nagar area.
According to the police officials cited in a report by news agency PTI, the victim was riding a scooter with her uncle to her school when a bus hit them at around 8am on Friday morning.
The officials cited above informed that the girl’s body was taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital in Kalyanpuri for medico-legal proceedings.
The cops also apprehended the DTC bus driver, identified as 45-year-old S K Murad. The driver had fled the scene after the accident.
70-year-old woman killed as ‘drunk’ son of Haryana cop crashes Mercedes in Delhi
A 70-year-old woman was killed, and a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl, were injured when an allegedly drunk 27-year-old man, the son of a police officer, crashed a speeding Mercedes sedan into a hatchback near Narela in northwest Delhi last Saturday.
Officers at the scene confirmed that beer and empty liquor bottles were recovered from the Mercedes. Police said the driver was returning from a party. According to police, the silver Mercedes E-Class was travelling at such high speed that when it struck the grey Maruti WagonR, in which a couple in their 40s was travelling with their daughter, the hatchback was flung away, crushing a woman pedestrian against a parked three-wheeler.
{{/usCountry}}Officers at the scene confirmed that beer and empty liquor bottles were recovered from the Mercedes. Police said the driver was returning from a party. According to police, the silver Mercedes E-Class was travelling at such high speed that when it struck the grey Maruti WagonR, in which a couple in their 40s was travelling with their daughter, the hatchback was flung away, crushing a woman pedestrian against a parked three-wheeler.
{{/usCountry}}Police identified the Mercedes driver as Shubham Sharma, a Narela resident and son of a Haryana Police sub-inspector. Sharma was arrested and booked for rash and negligent driving, causing death and injuries. An FIR was registered under Sections 281 and 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at Narela police station.
The couple in the WagonR – Narender and Geeta, both in their 40s – and their eight-year-old daughter sustained minor injuries and were admitted to a hospital. Geeta and her daughter were discharged after preliminary medical attention, while Narender underwent a CT scan to check for internal injuries.
According to at least two police officers, Sharma had “recently purchased” the Mercedes from a friend but had not completed the ownership transfer paperwork. Police identified the woman killed in the crash as Urmila Devi. Her husband, who died in 2019, was an administrative official from the Delhi Transport Department. She is survived by two sons. Urmila’s family and passersby alleged that Sharma was “inebriated” and driving recklessly when the crash occurred around 8am.