The Punjab Policehave arrested a teenager boy last night for mowing down three persons with hisover-speeding Mercedes car near Radha Soami Chowk here in SAS Nagar in theearly morning of Saturday.
The accused,Samrat, 18 years, a resident of sector 34D, Chandigarh belongs from the familyof Weldon Opticals in Chandigarh. He doesn’t have a Driving License and wasdrunk while driving at the time of the accident. The police have also bookedtwo of Samrat’s friends, identified as Arjun and Prabhnoor, who wereaccompanying him in the car.
The incident tookplace when Samrat, who was driving the Mercedes bearing registration numberCH01CA1869 jumped the traffic lights and rammed his car into an Ertiga car andtwo cycles, leaving three persons including a cyclist dead and other 3critically injured. The deceased persons have been identified as DharampreetSingh, Ankush Narula and Ram Prasad.
SeniorSuperintendent of Police (SSP) SAS Nagar Satinder Singh said that the trio whowere riding the Mercedes were drunk when the accident took place and the driverlost control of the car. They fled from the accident spot even after sensingthe serious condition of victims and didn't inform police or ambulance. Thepolice have also recovered empty bottles of liquor from the Mercedes.
The SSP said thatthe police have arrested Samrat, the accused driver who does not possess aDriving Licence. The police are conducting raids and will arrest the otheraccused persons soon too, he added.
Meanwhile, acriminal case has been registered under sections 304 (Culpable Homicide notamounting to Murder) and 120B (Criminal Conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) at Police Station Mataur against the accused. Investigations will becompleted in the next two weeks and the Court will be asked to conduct a speedytrial to give an exemplary punishment to the culprits.