BMW accident case: Accused claims car did not hit bike

Gaganpreet Kaur, accused in the Dhaula Kuan BMW accident case, on Wednesday, told a court that her car did not hit the motorbike of senior Finance Ministry official Navjot Singh and that she rushed the injured to a hospital within 24 minutes of the incident.

Kaur, 38, is alleged to be driving the BMW that collided with Singh’s two-wheeler on the Ring Road near the Delhi Cantonment Metro station on September 14, resulting in Singh’s death and serious injuries to his wife. She is in judicial custody until September 27.

During the bail hearing before Judicial Magistrate Ankit Garg, Kaur’s counsel argued that the FIR, which states the car hit the bike, was incorrect. “Suddenly something came before the car, it hit the footpath, flipped over, turned turtle and then the motorcycle came and hit it, besides hitting a bus. It is wrong to say that the car hit the motorcycle,” he said, referring to CCTV footage.

The counsel said Kaur acted promptly after the accident, arranging for her children, domestic help and husband to sit safely on the footpath and taking the injured to Nulife Hospital in GTB Nagar in about 23-24 minutes. He argued that taking them to AIIMS or Venkateshwar Hospital would have taken at least 36 minutes.

He also challenged the invocation of Section 105 — culpable homicide not amounting to murder — of the BNS, claiming Kaur did not intend to cause death. “The allegations are an afterthought. I could have run away but revealed my identity and cooperated fully with the police,” he said.

The public prosecutor countered that the victim’s wife did not insist on Nulife Hospital and that other nearby hospitals would have served the purpose. He said Nulife, associated with Kaur’s relatives, informed the police three hours after the accident. “The intention was not to save the injured, but to avoid legal consequences,” he claimed.

The court directed the investigating officer to produce CCTV footage and relevant documents on September 25.