A 20-year-old student on Sunday night allegedly drove a vehicle over a 50-year-old woman and dragged her body for 300 metres in Delhi’s Connaught Place before she was stopped by the police, PTI reported. The student, identified as Shreya Aggarwal, was arrested and released on bail after the police registered a case against her.
The deceased, identified as Phoolwati, was standing outside a restaurant near the Shivaji Stadium bus terminal when the vehicle hit her, the Hindustan Times reported. Phoolwati lived in a night shelter near Bangla Sahib Gurdwara with her husband.
An unidentified police official told the daily that they saw a crowd running after a car driving in the wrong direction on a one-way street and stopped it with a barricade. The official also claimed to have stopped the crowd from vandalising the car.
The victim was taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital where doctors declared her dead. She had sustained injuries to her head and neck, the official said. The body has been sent for postmortem.
The police said Aggarwal was not driving the vehicle under the influence of alcohol and that there were two other people in the car. Deputy Commissioner of Police Madhur Verma said they were examining close circuit television footage to ascertain what happened. “We have registered a case of rash driving and causing death due to negligence at Connaught Place police station,” Verma said.
Aggarwal is from Bareilly and is currently based in Mumbai, the police said.
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