Hit-and-run victim dragged for 2 hours sparks outrage

A brutal accident woke up New Delhi resident on New Year’s Day

Indians are outraged and no less than the chief minister (governor) of New Delhi is calling for the death penalty for five men suspected of hitting with a car they were riding a 20-year-old woman driving a scooter and dragging her underneath for two hours and 17 kilometers before leaving the victim’s mangled body on the road in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Reports say investigators are scrambling for evidence to the crime after police arrested and charged the suspects with “culpable homicide and causing death by negligence” as the victim’s family and relatives protested outside the police station of Sultanpuri Monday, demanding justice for the victim identified only as an event manager, BBC reported.

The woman left a hotel in Rohini Sector 23 in Sultanpuri at 1:31 a.m. on 1 January on her scooter with another woman based on a CCTV video that surfaced on Tuesday, according to Hindustan Times.

Police said the five in a grey Maruti Suzuki Baleno hit the woman riding the scooty in Sultanpuri and the impact entangled her body to the underside of the car, HT reported.

Her companion escaped harm, reports said.

A witness who saw the woman being dragged in Ladpur village called the police.

The driver of the car reportedly did not stop after hitting the victim out of fear and only realized that the woman was underneath the car when they stopped near Jonti village on Kanjhawla road, News18 reported.

Meanwhile, an autopsy of the victim’s body ruled out sexual abuse as claimed by her family, according to