A man appeared before the Ghaziabad Chief Judicial Magistrate court on Tuesday, claiming to be the driver of the Audi Q7 that rammed an auto at Indirapuram, killing four. The accused is one Ishaq Ahmed from Hafizganj, Bareilly and he has received bail from the court.
Ahmed, who hails from Labhera village under the Hafizganj police station in Bareilly, submitted a surrender application through his lawyer on Monday. In his surrender application, he claimed he was driving the car in question and wished to surrender, while also submitting a bail application.
“As he has forwarded his surrender application, claiming that he was driving the car, he now becomes an accused. Any suspicion on the car owner Dr. Manish Rawat is now over. We will, however, carry out further investigation in the case,” said P.K Tripathi, Indirapuram station house officer.
Protecting owner?
When asked if there was a possibility that Ahmed has been used as front to protect the owner who, according to reports, is a doctor at Safdarjung hospital, the officer said: “The police have not closed its investigation yet. We will also investigate, either Ahmed was driving the SUV or some other person was driving it.”
The family of the victims lodged a police complaint and an FIR was registered under sections 279 (rash driving), 304a (causing death by negligence) and 427 (causing damages) of the Indian Penal Code at Indirapuram police station. Unidentified persons were named in the FIR.
Doctor unreachable
In the incident, four people, including a woman techie and the autorickshaw driver, were killed when the high-end SUV rammed their auto at Indirapuram on a narrow road that runs parallel to the Hindon canal. Police identified the auto driver by his first name, Sanjeev (25).
The others were identified as Yajuvendra Singh Sengar(40), his cousin Vishal Singh (25), and their family friend Rinku Yadav (38), who worked with HCL in Noida. All hail from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Vishal had come to appear for a job interview, the police said.
Following the incident, the police had seized the SUV as the occupants fled the spot. After an investigation, the police claimed that the car was registered in the name of one Manish Rawat, a doctor with Safdarjung Hospital’s neurology department in Delhi.
However, a couple of days into the investigation, the police failed to reach Rawat, who could have given clues about the occupants of the car on the night of the incident.
