3 killed in road accident on Bhagu road

Gurdeep Singh Mann

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 1

In a tragic road accident, three persons — a teenage boy, girl and a woman — were killed on the Bhagu road in the wee hours today.

The deceased have been identified as Kanwaljot Kaur of Gurbax Colony, Patiala, Gurdeep Singh of Balongi village in Mohali and Deepika, a resident of Nai Basti. The deceased were in the age group of 28 to 32 years.

Amarjeet Singh — father of Kanwaljot Kaur — got retired as manager from Punjab National Bank and her mother is a professor in Punjabi University Patiala.

The family members said they had two daughters and Kanwaljot was the younger one.

She earlier worked as a teacher in a school on Mansa road and then in a pharmacy college.

At present she was preparing for IELTS and was staying in a DD Mittal Tower flat on the Multania road.

Deepika worked with her father Kalicharan at a drug store near Maheshwari Chowk.

Deepika got married around two years ago and had left her first husband. She was into a legal battle for divorce with her second husband, who is from Mansa.

Relatives of the boy from Balongi said Gurdeep had spent two years abroad and had come to Bathinda just two years ago.

Residents of street number six of the Bhagu road where the accident occurred said they had no idea when this accident occurred.

Parwinder, a resident of street number six, said the accident might have occurred between 1 am and 3 am as the control room of the NGO Sahara Jan Sewa got a call around 4.15 am.

“Our volunteer Sandeep Goyal rushed to the spot in an ambulance,” said the president of NGO Sahara Jan Sewa.

Sandeep Goyal said, “All three accident victims were bleeding profusely with injuries in their heads. The boy was hardly breathing while the girl sitting beside the driver seat was gasping for breath.” Morning walkers helped in shifting the trio into the ambulance.

While the girl and the boy were declared dead at the Civil Hospital, the woman was referred to a private hospital on the Bibiwala road. The woman was declared dead at the private hospital around 6.30 am.

Police officials said the trio was travelling in a brand new Fiat Punto car from the Power House Road light point towards the Bhagu road.

“Since most of the stretch is a double lane, the driver being an outsider was not aware of the sharp turn at the end of the road. Despite thick fog, the car was driven at a high speed,” said Dharamjit Singh, a shopkeeper in the area.

He said the car banged into the raised platform of a liquor vend situated on the road. A hockey stick, a blue jacket, a bottle of honey, female slippers and boy’s shoes were lying inside the car with a bill of the car bought from the industrial area, Mohali.

Proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC will be initiated against the three. There mobile phones were completely damaged.