Sudeeksha case: 2 held, cops say accident due to ‘speeding’

GREATER NOIDA/BULANDSHAHR: The police on Sunday arrested two suspects in connection with the death of a 19-year-old woman, who was studying in the US, in a road accident near Aurangabad town of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district last week .

Deepak Solanki, 28, a construction contractor and a resident of Gulaothi town, was allegedly riding a motorcycle and his mason, 50-year-old Raju of Bulandshahr dehat, was riding pillion when the accident took place on August 10. Although the family had earlier claimed that motorcyclists had harassed Sudeeksha and that led to the accident, a probe by a four-member special investigation team formed by the Bulandshahr police found that the cause of the accident was speeding.

Sudeeksha was pursuing an undergraduate course in entrepreneurship from Babson College, Massachusetts, on a ₹3.80 crore scholarship.

Police said that two days after the accident, the suspects had modified the motorcycle when they learnt that the police was on the lookout for a Royal Enfield bike. On Sunday, the police recovered their motorcycle.

Santosh Kumar Singh, senior superintendent of police, Bulandshahr, said at a press conference on Sunday that the police had scanned CCTV footage and established that the accident took place at 8.44 am. “The two motorcycles {the one Sudeeksha was riding and Solanki’s} were moving in the same direction on a busy road and both of them were speeding.”

Sudeeksha’s father, Jitendra Bhati said that he was satisfied with the police investigation