The Delhi police on Wednesday challaned the man whose minor son allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive with his Mercedes car in the Civil Lines area even as the family members of the vic
The Delhi police on Wednesday challaned the man whose minor son allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive with his Mercedes car in the Civil Lines area even as the family members of the victim alleged police inaction in the case.
A senior police official said on Wednesday that the “car owner was prosecuted under provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act”.
The man hired as driver by the owner of the Mercedes is also likely to be booked for misleading the police during the interrogation, he said.
Even as the police maintained that appropriate action has been taken in the case, relatives of Sidharth Sharma, who died in the mishap in north Delhi’s Civil Lines, claimed police inaction in the case.
Sharma’s sister Shilpa alleged that the police “did not do anything” in the initial stage of the probe and kept talking about “protocols”.
“When an accident happens, you have seen the car, you have seen the driver, where does protocol come. After the incident, my friends were taking pictures of the witnesses, noting down their statements, which the police should have done. Now they are saying that they are waiting for the post-mortem report,” she said.
Claiming that the police was lenient with the accused, victim’s father Prem Raj Sharma said, “He (the juvenile) should have been apprehended right after the incident and put behind bars. Had the driver been apprehended on the spot, others, including the owner of the car, would have come to the police station automatically on their own,” he said. The police on Tuesday apprehended the person driving the car.
