- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
In a rerun of the horrific incident in Delhi on New Year’s Day that shocked India, a body was dragged by a car for some distance in the early hours of Tuesday (7).
The latest suspected incident of hit-and-drag happened in Mathura in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The driver of the vehicle, Virender Singh, has been arrested but he claimed that the victim was killed in another accident and his body got caught in his vehicle’s undercarriage, a report in NDTV said. The police said the body was dragged for more than 10 kilometres.
The body was yet to be identified.
According to the NDTV report, Singh, who lives in Delhi, was driving the car from Agra to Noida around 4 am when the body caught under his car was spotted by security personnel at a toll plaza near Mathura on the Yamuna Expressway.
They stopped the car and on interrogation, Singh reportedly told the police that he could not see clearly while driving in thick fog and did not realise that a body got caught under his car.
“There was dense fog at the Expressway last night, so there was low visibility, due to which the man who met with some accident stuck to the car,” police superintendent Trigun Bisen said quoting Singh.
The police were questioning the suspect and looking into security cameras on the route to check whether anybody died there.
In the early hours of January 1, Anjali Singh, 20, was riding a scooter in Delhi when she was hit by a car and got dragged by it for 13 kilometres.
Those inside the car reportedly heard her screams but didn’t stop.
The vehicle took multiple U-turns to shake off the body. Seven men, including the five men in the car that night, were arrested soon after the incident, which raised questions over road safety.
