Four restaurant workers killed in Gurugram after car rams into their motorcycles

Sanjay Yadav

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Gurugram, March 3

Four workers of a restaurant in DLF phase-1 were killed when a speeding Skoda car rammed into their bikes on the Golf Course road here in the early hours of Thursday.

The incident took place when the four men were returning home after work.

The driver of the car, who was allegedly drunk, has been nabbed and an FIR has been registered against the driver at DLF phase-1 police station. Harsh Singh, a resident of Sector 43, who was behind the wheel was produced in a city court today and was sent to judicial custody. Singh was working as sales manager with a private company, police said.

The deceased have been identified as Govind Pratap Kurmi (29), a native of Madhya Pradesh, Gopal (27) from Uttarakhand, and Jitender Mondal (35) and Rajnish Mondal (21), both natives of Sitamadhi district in Bihar. All four were working at Chacha Restaurant, located in the market of Qutub plaza in DLF phase-1. Restaurant owner Manoj Kumar said all were working at his place since December last year. Jitender Mondal was head cook, Rajnish Mondal was dish cleaner and Gopal was working as waiter, he said.

According to the complaint filed by Manoj Kumar, the incident occurred around 12.30 am today when he closed the restaurant. Jitender and Rajnish, Gopal and Govind were on two motorbikes and headed towards Chakkarpur where they lived as tenants.

“They came on Golf Course road from DLF gate 11 and I was behind them in my car. As they took the Golf Course road a speeding black Skoda Rapid car came from Sikanderpur side and rammed into the two bikes from behind. Bikes were hurled into the air and the car driver dragged Govind Kurmi for some metre. Kurmi died on the spot while Jitender and Rajnish breathed their last on the way to hospital. Later, Gopal succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital. The police were called who nabbed the driver of the car who was in an inebriated state,” Manoj Kumar said in his complaint.

The families of deceased have been informed and police handed over bodies to them after postmortem. Following the complaint an FIR has been registered against the car driver under Sections 304 (culpable homicide), 308 (attempt to culpable homicide) of IPC and Section 185 of Motor Vehicles Act.

Station House Officer of DLF phase-1 police station inspector Naresh Kumar said, “We have arrested the car driver and taken his blood sample also. The driver was produced in a city court today and sent into judicial custody. We are investigating and action will be taken as per the law.” The police have also taken the damaged car and bikes in custody, he added.