Two dead as car hits scooter, drags rider for 350 metres in Delhi; five held

A car collided headon with a scooter in Delhis Keshav Puram and drove on dragging along for a distance one of its two riders whose head got stuck between its mangled bonnet and the windshield Both the riders died of injuriesThe incident took place around 3 am on Friday when the victims were returning home on the twowheeler after watching a movie police officials saidThis comes weeks after a 20yearold woman was killed in the early hours of the New Year after her scooter was hit by a car which dragged her for 12 km from Sultanpuri to Kanjhawala in the national capitalAlso readRashtrapati Bhavans Mughal Gardens renamed Amrit Udyan to open for public from January 31In Fridays accident the Tata Zest car dragging the rider stuck on its bonnet and the scooter under its bumper was intercepted by police around 350 metres from the spot of the accident as it accelerated towards Inderlok in a bid to flee the officials saidTwo of the cars five occupants were held while the rest managed to flee but were apprehended later a senior police official said adding that all of them are students and were driving around after attending a weddingPolice said all five were under the influence of alcoholThey said the impact of the collision had flung the pillion rider of the scooter to the roof of the car and then he fell on the roadBoth the injured riders Kailash Bhatnagar 41 of Shastri Nagar and Sumit Khari 21 of Loni in Ghaziabad were rushed to a hospital Bhatnagar was declared brought dead at the hospital while Khari died during treatment police said The victims used to work at a jeans manufacturing unitDeputy Commissioner of Police northwest Usha Rangnani said a police control room PCR van saw the incident and chased the offending vehicle down It was intercepted at a distance of about 350 metres from the spot within 11 seconds and its driver Parveen Nagar alias Silli 20 of Trinagar and Diviansh Puri 20 of Shalimar Bagh were apprehendedThe other occupants of the car Om Bhardwaj 19 Harsh Mudgal 19 and Devansh 19 were nabbed later police saidA case under IPC sections 304 punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder 304A causing death by negligence 338 causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others 279 rash driving or riding on a public way and 34 common intension and provisions of the Delhi Motor Vehicles Rules and the Motor Vehicles Act was registered at the Keshav Puram police station the DCP saidDelhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora visited the Keshav Puram police station on Saturday and praised the PCR staff for their timely wellcoordinated and swift response in the case the officials saidArora felicitated Head Constable Surjeet Singh and Constable Ram Kishore with a cash reward of Rs 10000 each and Assistant SubInspectors Ajab Singh and Vikas Head Constable Amit and Constable Vikas with a cash reward of Rs 5000 each for exemplary display of devotion towards duty they saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever