In yet another hit-and run-case, a Uber cab driver was killed after a speeding BMW car with an MNC employee at the wheel rammed into his vehicle in South Delhi's Munirka area.
According to police, the accident took place at 11:30 pm near the Munirka flyover when a speeding BMW X5, bearing a Chandigarh registration number, hit the WagonR from behind. The impact was such that the rear portion of the cab was completely destroyed.
The accused has been identified as 24-year-old Shoaib Kohli. He works with a private firm in Gurgaon, police said.
Police said that the deceased has been identified as Nazrul Islam (30), a resident of Murshidabad in West Bengal. Islam was the only earning member of a family of five (two children, wife and his grandmother). One of his children is studying in class II in a government school while the other is in playschool. Nazrul's wife works as a domestic help.
Kohli had managed to flee after the incident but was arrested later, police said. He has been booked for rash and negligent driving and overspeeding.
Police said the owner of the BMW is Kohli's mother Shehnaz Kohli, who is a member of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, and the family resides at the posh Panchsheel Enclave in South Delhi. During, interrogation, Kohli denied driving in an intoxicated state.
Nazrul was rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre where he was declared brought dead, police said, adding that he had joined the cab fleet a day before he met with the fatal accident.
Kohli was on his way to Vasant Vihar when he lost control of the car and rammed it into the WagonR cab, police said.
Meanwhile, scores of cab drivers protested outside the Vasant Vihar police station, demanding harsh punishment for the BMW driver and compensation for the victim's family.
During questioning, Kohli told police that Nazrul had suddenly applied brakes due to which his BMW rammed into the WagonR. He had ran away fearing that he may be lynched by the mob, the police said.
A case under sections 279( Rash driving or riding on a public way) and 304A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC has been registered against the accused at the Vasant Vihar police station.
