Woman run over by 20-yr-old’s car

NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old woman was killed in Connaught Place after she was run over by an SUV being driven by a 20-year-old student of fashion design on Sunday night. Police said the victim was dragged by the vehicle for nearly 300 metres before they managed to stop the car.

The driver of the SUV, a black Jeep Compass, was arrested after she was stopped at a police picket nearly 300 metres from the accident spot. The victim was still underneath the vehicle when it was stopped, the police said, adding that the driver was not under the influence of alcohol at the time of arrest.

The accident took place around 9pm when the SUV took a left turn from Baba Kharak Singh Marg to the lane leading to Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, the police said. The victim, Phoolwati, who lived in a night shelter near Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, was standing on the roadside in front of a restaurant near Shivaji Stadium bus terminal when she was hit by the vehicle. Police said the driver panicked after the accident and tried to flee.

MAN’S EAR BITTEN OFF, SPAT OUT IN ROAD RAGE

NEWDELHI: A minor accident escalated into a heated argument and then into a shocking episode of road rage, with a scooter rider biting off the ear of a motorcyclist in northwest Delhi, police said on Monday.

The incident took place in Shakurpur locality on the evening of August 12. The victim, 19-year-old undergraduate student Ajay Thakur, had to undergo plastic surgery to restore the ear, which had been spat on the road by the scooter rider, police said. Thakur may require further surgeries if the initial replanting procedure does not hold. A case of causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means (Indian Penal Code Section 324) and wrongful restraint (IPC Section 341) was registered against unknown persons at the Subhash Place police station on Thursday, after Thakur was discharged from hospital. The police are yet to nab the attacker as CCTVS near the scene of crime failed to capture the scooter’s registration number.

Thakur said that, on August 12, he was out on his Hero Passion motorcycle to drop a friend at Shakurpur. “On the way, my motorcycle brushed against a scooter. There were two men on the scooter, who began abusing me, but passersby intervened,” he said. Later that evening, at around 7.30pm when Thakur was returning home on the same route, the two scooter riders spotted him and intercepted his motorcycle.“they told me that I had damaged their scooter and began abusing me. When I pointed out that there was no sign of damage, they started thrashing me. One of them used the scooter key as a knuckle to repeatedly punch me on the face and head,” Thakur said.

When Thakur tried to fight back, one of them held his arms while another held his face and bit off a part of his right ear. “As I stood there, shocked and bleeding, the man spat the ear on the road and they rode away. I couldn’t note down the scooter’s registration number, but I can recognise their faces,” he said.