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Hit-and-run: Canada-based NRI arrested for Fauja Singh's death

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July 17, 2025

Accused confesses he was behind the wheel when the accident took place; sent to judicial custody

- Navrajdeep Singh

Hit-and-run: Canada-based NRI arrested for Fauja Singh's death

A 26-year-old Canada-based NRI, Amritpal Singh Dhillon, has been arrested in the hit-and-run case that led to the death of centenarian marathon runner Fauja Singh in Jalandhar on July 14, police said on Wednesday.

Dhillon, who originally belongs to Dasupur village in Jalandhar's Kartarpur sub division, was arrested on Tuesday night after the police scanned CCTV footage and identified the vehicle, a white Toyota Fortuner (PB 20C 7100) that he was driving on Monday. The vehicle has also been impounded.

The accused was produced in a local court and sent to judicial custody in Kapurthala jail.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Jalandhar rural senior superintendent of police Harvinder Singh Virk said Dhillon has confessed that he was at the wheel when the accident occurred outside 114-year-old Fauja Singh's native Beas village on the Jalandhar-Pathankot national highway on Monday afternoon.

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