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Delhi BMW crash: Driver who hit finance ministry official arrested
Police registered a case of culpable homicide over the accident that happened on the Ring Road on Sunday, killing senior finance ministry official Navjot Singh.
The woman, who was at the wheel of the allegedly speeding BMW car that rammed into a motorbike and killed a finance ministry official on Delhi's Ring Road on Sunday, was arrested on Monday for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, obstruction of evidence, rash driving, and endangering lives.
Gagan Preet Makkad, the accused, allegedly ignored repeated pleas to take Navjot Singh, 56, the official riding the motorbike, and his wife, Sandeep Kaur, 54, the pillion rider, who was severely injured, to the nearest hospital.
Kaur told police that when she gained consciousness, they were being taken in a van to the hospital. "I kept telling the woman who was in the van with us to take us to a nearby hospital, but she did not," police quoted Kaur as saying in the first information report (FIR).
She said her husband was unconscious and needed immediate treatment, and could have been saved if he had been treated in time. Kaur alleged the woman deliberately took them to a small hospital far away. Kaur said that while on the stretcher, she again asked the woman to take them to a better hospital. Eventually, the couple was brought to a private hospital in Dwarka, where she is undergoing treatment.
"The accused's father is known to one of the three owners of the hospital where the victims were taken,” said a police official aware of the matter.
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Police said Singh and Kaur, residents of Hari Nagar, were returning home when the car hit them while a bus was moving to their right side. The car hit a divider and overturned after colliding with the motorbike. The car occupants, Makkad, her husband, Parikshit, and their two children, were injured.
Deputy police commissioner (south west) Amit Goel said Gagan Preet Makkad was taken into custody after she was discharged from a hospital. "Further legal proceedings are underway."
Kaur said Singh suffered severe injuries to his head, face, and legs. "I also have multiple fractures in my hands and legs...suffered head injuries. I have 14 stitches on my head," Kaur said in her statement to the police.
