Delhi: 1 dead after Class 12 student runs over people sleeping on footpath

April 20, 2017

New Delhi, Apr 20: At least one person died and three more were injured after a car ran over people sleeping on a footpath in New Delhi's Kashmiri Gate area.

kashmiriThe Hyundai i20 car is believed to have been driven by a Class 12 student who has been apprehended by police. The driver's age is being verified.

The accident took place at around 5.45 am today morning and it is not known if the driver was drunk at the time.

According to early information, the driver, who has been identified as one Samar Chugh, recently turned major on April 15. Samar, a student of DPS, Mathura, and is the son of a businessman.

Samar, a Model Town resident, was accompanied by two of his friends, including one named Ujjwal, whose father owns the i20 car that was involved in the accident. The three boys initially tried to flee, but were nabbed by Delhi Police.

Cops later detained Samar and are likely to invoke Indian Penal Code section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder).

The owner of the car - Ujjwal's father - is likely to be booked as well.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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