A 50-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, both employees of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), died after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding SUV in the Delhi Cantonment area on Wednesday evening, police said on Thursday. The driver of the SUV has been arrested.
“On reaching the spot, a team found that a motorcycle carrying two people had met with an accident. Locals caught the accused driver and handed him over to the police. Singh owns a milk booth in Rohini, they added. The two lived together.
Police identified the victims as Manju Devi, 50, and Sukhbir Singh, 45, residents of Dwarka, who were returning home from their office on Lodhi Road. He was identified as Bhupendra Singh, 26, a resident of Jhajjar, Haryana. Police said a case under Sections 281 (rash driving) and 106(A) (causing death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered at the Delhi Cantonment police station. Sukhbir’s brother Chote Lal, 42, said he received a call around 5.30pm informing him about his brother’s accident.
We later learnt that they had been hit from behind by a Mahindra Thar SUV,” the DCP said. He was subsequently arrested, police said. A police officer aware of the investigation said Sukhbir was unmarried, while Manju was separated from her husband. “Manju’s three children live with her husband in Narela,” the officer said.
Deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Amit Goel said that around 5pm on Wednesday, a police personnel from the Delhi Cantonment police station noticed an accident near the IOC traffic signal and immediately informed the station.
