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‘Pleaded to be taken to nearby hospital’: Wife of Delhi BMW collision victim to police
FIR registered by Delhi police in car-motorcycle accident that caused death of the bike rider; his wife, injured in accident, recorded statement with police
The wife of Navjot Singh, a government official killed after their motorbike was allegedly hit by a BMW car near Dhaula Kuan in Delhi on Sunday, has given a statement to the police, alleging that the car driver ignored her requests to be taken to the nearest hospital.
The driver and her husband took them to a distant hospital deliberately, an injured Sandeep Kaur told the police.
A police officer aware of the matter told HT: “The accused's father is known to one of the three owners of the hospital where the victims were taken." The victims' son had earlier said the hospital had a link to the accused woman's family.
Police have said that after the collision, Navjot Singh, 56, and Sandeep Kaur, 54, fell under an oncoming bus after the collision, which made it worse.
Sandeep Kaur has alleged in her statement police statement the blue BMW sedan was being driven at a high speed, causing it to overturn on the road after the collision.
She told the police that she lost her senses for a bit and when she regained consciousness her husband and she 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 recalled that the woman's name was Gagan (the BMW's driver, identified by police as Gagan Preet Makkad), and a man (reported to be her husband, Parikshit) was with her.
Despite her repeated requests to be taken to the nearest hospital for urgent first-aid care — especially since her husband was unconscious at the time — they were taken to a small hospital far away instead, she has alleged, as per the police. She said that at the hospital in GTB Nagar, they were kept waiting on a stretcher outside for an extended period.
Sandeep Kaur also recalled having noticed that sedan had a registration number ending with ‘0008’.
She mentioned that her son and other family members eventually arrived at the GTB Nagar hospital, from where she was transferred to Venkateshwar Hospital.
Her husband succumbed to serious injuries to his head and face, while she survived with multiple fractures in her hands and legs, along with a head injury requiring 14 stitches.
Police have have taken the woman who was allegedly driving the BMW into custody for further investigation after she was discharged. She had suffered injuries too.
Police have said Navjot Singh, who worked in the ministry of finance and lived in Hari Nagar, was riding with his wife Sandeep Kaur on the motorcycle when the collision happened. The BMW's driver and her husband hired a taxi and took the injured to a hospital, police said.
Later, the hospital informed the police that Navjot Singh had died.
