Weeks after 35-year-old singer Jatin Khanna was killed in a hit-and-run accident on August 2, near the Mukundpur flyover in northwest Delhi, the Delhi Police on Sunday said they had changed the investigating officer (IO) after the family raised concerns about the progress of the probe and protested multiple times outside the Jahangirpuri police station.
Over the next weeks, Khanna’s family sought justice and a fair probe and raised concerns over the investigation. They also protested multiple times outside the police station. “The accident took place at 4am. We didn’t know this would happen. He was killed by a car. When we reached the spot, we could see him alive but unconscious. My brother was alive.
On August 2, Khanna, a local singer, was returning home to Uttam Nagar on his bike when an unknown vehicle rammed into his bike. The delay in the ambulance’s arrival, which took around 20-30 minutes affected his chances of survival. Because it was his daughter’s fourth birthday, my brother was rushing home from a Mata Ki Chowki.
The accused managed to flee, police said. They reached the spot within seven to eight minutes and rushed Khanna to a hospital, where he was declared dead, according to police. Police was also there, but the investigating officer said only an ambulance could take him. His wife leaves the child at a relative’s home every day and we stage protests,” he said.
On Sunday, during another such protest, police said they received the family’s complaint and subsequently changed the IO. He could have been alive today.
Rohit alleged that the family had not been shown any CCTV footage from the accident site so far.
Khanna’s brother, Rohit Khanna, said the family had concerns about the response following the accident and the progress of the investigation.
