Head constable held for ‘mowing down’ IAS officer’s mother

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 17

The Delhi Police arrested a head constable who was posted in the security wing for allegedly mowing down the mother of an IAS officer in Lutyens' Delhi.

In a hit-and-run case, a speeding vehicle had mowed down Nirmal Devi (76), the mother of IAS officer Arun Baroka, who is currently posted as a joint secretary in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, on Madhu Limaye Marg in Chanakyapuri on Thursday evening.

The woman had succumbed to her injuries during treatment.

According to a police official, Chandra Bhan, the accused, who is in his 40s, had got his car repaired after the accident, in an attempt to erase any clue which could link him to it.

B. K. Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi), confirmed that Bhan was arrested yesterday and charged for tampering with evidence along with other offences.

A  woman  was an eyewitness to the incident, the official said.

The woman managed to note down four digits of the Maruti WagonR car's number and told the investigators that the vehicle had a police sticker.

The police got in touch with the car mechanics in the area and traced the car and its driver yesterday.

During interrogation, Bhan said he was on his way home in Humayunpur from his office in Chanakyapuri when the accident occurred, adding that he fled the scene out of fear.

Sources said the car was being driven at a high speed and the woman was flung in the air for 15 to 20 metres after she was hit by it.