Fresh arrest warrants issued against accused

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, February 20

A local court has issued fresh arrest warrants against an accused in the Audi-Tavera mishap case. Three persons, including two college students, were killed in the accident on July 23, 2013.

Accused Harsimranjit Singh has failed to appear in the court despite repeated summons. The court again directed the police to produce the accused in the court. The case will now come up for hearing on March 9.

The accident took place on the night of July 23, 2013. The driver of a Tavera and two college students were killed and two others were injured after Audi Q7 jumped the divider on the Sector 17-18 road and hit the Tavera.

Four students from Ghaziabad were heading back home in Tavera from Dharampur in Himachal Pradesh. They had to take a bus from the Sector-17 bus stand. Tavera driver, Hast Bahadur (34), a resident of Dharampur, along with two students sitting on the rear seat — Sahil Juneja (22), and Kuldeep Singh (19), died on the spot. Sahil was pursuing BBA, while Kuldeep was an engineering student.

Two other students — Shikhar Rastogi, who was sitting on the front seat and Rounak Singh sitting on the left rear seat suffered injuries in the mishap. The case was registered on the complaint of Shikhar.

Initially, the police had also registered a case against Tavera driver who had died in the accident, but had to drop it after the intervention of family members of the victims.

After fleeing from the spot, Audi owner Rajat Kapoor (29), a resident of Panchkula, who was behind the wheel, reached Sector 17 police station and claimed that his driver Sukhpal, who was accompanying him, was driving the car when the mishap took place. However, footage from CCTV cameras revealed that Rajat was driving the SUV. Rajat along with Trivikram Singh Toor (22), Gurpreet Singh (29), Harsimranjit Singh (28) and Prabhjit Singh (28) are accused in the case.