BMW accident: Driver arrested; police probe links with hospital

Delhi Police on Monday arrested 38-year-old Gaganpreet Makkad, who was behind the wheel of a BMW that mowed down Navjot Singh, a 52-year-old deputy secretary with the Union finance ministry, officers aware of the matter said. She was produced before a duty magistrate and sent to two-day judicial custody, they said.

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Police said that a key point of the probe centred on why she took the victims to the Nulife Multi Specialty Hospital in GTB Nagar, which is located 19 kilometres from the accident spot. To be sure, the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital is 7.8 kilometres from the spot and AIIMS, 12 kilometres.

"She said that when the car toppled over, she and her family were taken out by locals and she saw the injured couple. She said that she decided to take the couple to the hospital because she trusted them as they saved her daughter when she got infected with Covid-19," an officer aware of the matter said.

On Sunday, Navjot Singh and his wife Sandeep Kaur, 50, residents of a two-storey house in west Delhi's Hari Nagar, had gone to Banga Sahib Gurudwara, after which they went to the Karnataka Bhawan for lunch. They left for home around 1.15pm and took the Dhaula Kuan route, where the accident took place. Navjot Singh died, and Kaur suffered severe injuries, including multiple fractures and head wounds.