A three-year-old girl died after a resident of Sector-46 ran over her while reversing their SUV on Tuesday evening, police said on Wednesday. The driver is on the run and has yet to be arrested.
In a separate accident, reported from the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, two people died Tuesday evening after a truck rammed into an illegal parked trailer truck near the Pataudi Road underpass, police said. The driver then fled the scene. With the help of locals, police identified the driver and the vehicle in the accident. However, the suspect is on the run and has yet to be arrested.
The incident occurred around 7:30pm as the victim was playing with other children at an empty plot next to her residence in the service lane, near Ambedkar Chowk, when a vehicle, identified as a Mahindra XEV-9e, backed into her, said police, according to police. On a complaint by the victim’s father, an FIR was registered against the driver under Sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at Sector-50 police station on Wednesday. On the truck owner’s complaint, an FIR was registered under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of BNS at Farrukhnagar police station on Wednesday.
On a complaint by the victim’s cousin, an FIR was registered under sections of BNS at Kherki Daula police station on Tuesday.
Residents and locals who spotted the accident informed her family. The body was handed over to the family after the autopsy. The victim and her family were from Bihar’s Sheikhpura district.
They found her lying in a pool of blood and rushed her to a private hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead, an official said. Her father, Santosh Chaudhary, said strict action should be taken against the driver, who fled the spot without helping her. “My wife has been repeatedly fainting since the incident,” he told HT.
