In a latest case of drunk driving, a 30-year-old person died after being hit by a SUV and dragged for about 100 metre over a parking dispute in Ghaziabad’s Modinagar town on the New Year’s eve.
The main accused Rahul Chowdhary was arrested but his four accomplices, all of whom were allegedly drunk, are on the run, DCP (Rural) Vivek Chandra Yadav said.
The incident happened on December 31 when the deceased, Anupam Srivastava, who runs a Jan Sewa Kendra, had gone to the Harmukh Puri market of Modinagar with his friend Arun to buy eatables. They parked the car at a place and Srivastava came outside while Arun was still seated. The police said that an SUV was parked in front of their car.
The SUV was being driven by Chowdhary, who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, police said. When Arun blew horn for Chowdhary to remove his SUV from there, he allegedly got angry and started abusing Srivastava but the locals intervened and pacified the situation.
Police said that following the heated exchange, Chowdhary went away but again returned with his friends and allegedly hit Srivastava who fell on the ground. The accused then allegedly hit him with his SUV and dragged the body for at least 100 metre, police said, adding all those in the SUV were drunk and provoked him to mow down Srivastava.
However, later Arun rushed Srivastava to a nearby hospital where the doctor declared him dead. A complaint was lodged by the father of the deceased and a case under section 302 (murder) of IPC was registered and the main accused was arrested, DCP Yadav added.
(with PTI inputs)
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