Constable run over by mini truck at naka in Jalandhar
JALANDHAR: Two days after a woman sub-inspector was killed in a road accident here, a 35-yearold constable of the Punjab Armed Police (PAP) was run over by a speeding mini truck at a checkpoint on the national highway here on Monday morning.
The incident comes a day after chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh ordered crackdown on speeding and other traffic violations in the state.
Victim Karamjeet Singh hailed from Sangrur and was posted at the 27 Battalion in PAP, Jalandhar. He died on the spot. Two more cops, constables Rajinder Singh and Parminder Singh, who were manning the checkpoint near Pragpur village were also injured.
The mini truck driver, Daleep Sahni of Ludhiana, was in an inebriated condition at the time of the accident, said Pragpur police station in-charge Paramjeet Singh. He was speeding and rammed his vehicle into the barricades before running over the constable and injuring two others, he said.
The driver was arrested on the spot and booked for murder and rash driving.
Sub-inspector Jagdeep Kaur, 27, posted with the Jalandhar police commissionerate, was killed after her scooter was hit by a speeding SUV in Jalandhar on Saturday. In November last year, assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Joginder Parsaad of the Jalandhar city police was crushed to death by a speeding truck at a naka on the national highway near Focal Point. HTC
DRIVER WAS IN AN INEBRIATED CONDITION, ARRESTED ON THE SPOT ON CHARGES OF MURDER, RASH DRIVING