5-yr-old boy killed in accident at SW Delhi
NEW DELHI: A five-year-old boy was killed and his 59-year-old grandfather was injured when they were returning from a local park in Southwest Delhi’s Chhawla on Wednesday morning, police said explaining the incident as that of an accident even though the victim’s family alleged that it was a case of road rage.
The police identified the deceased as Vidit Kumar, a Class 1 student, and the injured as Prem Prakash, 59, a Delhi Transport Corporation employee, who also suffered head injuries and is admitted to a hospital.
According to the police, Prakash was returning to his house with his two grandsons -- Vidit and his three-year-old brother Jaksh -from a local park when he got involved in an accident with a bike. However, Vidit’s father, Mohit Kumar, has alleged that some unknown people on a bike assaulted his father and his son when the scooter they were riding brushed past their vehicle.
Officers associated with the case said it was “an accident”, and a case under relevant sections pertaining to causing death by negligence has been registered at Chhawla police station.
On Thursday evening, the
police said that they have apprehended a juvenile who was riding the bike that was involved in the accident. According to an investigator, two minor boys were riding the bike and hit Prem Prakash’s scooter from behind.
Additional deputy commissioner of police (Dwarka) Vikram Singh said police first received a call about an accident near Khatu Shyam Mandir in Chhawla, and another call from a hospital stating that a boy has been declared brought dead and his grandfather was injured.
Singh said, “Prem Prakash was going on his scooter with his two grandsons. He got into an accident with an unknown bike. In the accident, the five-year-old boy died and Prakash got injured. A case under section 279,337, and 304A of the Indian Penal Code has been registered,” he said.
Singh said teams have been formed to arrest the accused.
Mohit Kumar, an employee of Food Corporation of India, who is posted in Punjab, said he was at work when he received a call about the incident around 7pm. “I immediately left for Delhi. My father told me that me that he had taken Vidit and his younger brother Jaksh to a park 2kms away from our house for the kids to play. When they were returning, his bike brushed past a bike after which the riders first attacked my father and then my son Vidit. My younger son was unharmed,” he said.
“The men left after attacking my father and son... A coach from a local cricket academy...took them to hospital,” he said.
Kumar said that he reached Delhi on Wednesday night and headed straight to Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital where Vidit’s body was preserved for post-mortem examination. “He had started going to school only a week ago, and my father used to take both the kids to park every day to play,” he said, adding his mother is a Delhi Police sub-inspector.
A police officer privy to the matter said the family’s allegations are being looked into and necessary legal action will be taken after the post-mortem report is received.