Delhi BMW accident news: A day after a senior Finance Ministry official was killed when a BMW hit his motorcycle in the Delhi Cantonment area, Delhi Police Monday said the woman driving the car has been booked under sections of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and for attempting to destroy evidence after the accident.
Navjot Singh, 57, who was posted as Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs under the Finance Ministry, was killed and his wife injured when the BMW rammed into them on Sunday afternoon.
The BMW was being driven by a woman, Gaganpreet, who was accompanied by her husband, Parikshit Makkar, and two young children, police said.
According to police, the car was registered in the name of Gaganpreet’s husband. They live in West Delhi’s Rajouri Garden.
“After the accident, the duo — Gaganpreet and Parikshit — took Navjot and his injured wife to Nulife Hospital in GTB Nagar, nearly 17 km from the accident site. It has been revealed that the hospital owner is known to them, as Gaganpreet’s parental home is in the same locality where the hospital is located,” a police officer said.
Gaganpreet and her husband were also admitted in the same private hospital, where they are under observation of the doctors, the officer said.
The statements of Gagandeep and her husband are yet to be recorded but a case under sections 281 (negligent and rash driving), 125B (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) has been lodged at Delhi Cantonment police station.
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Police said Parikshit is in the business of making horse leather saddles, seats, covers, and belts in Delhi.
