A 38-year-old woman was killed and her 13-year-old daughter critically injured when their SUV was hit by another car being driven by a 22-year-old woman in Punjabi Bagh on Friday night.
The accused, who was allegedly drunk at the time of the incident, has been arrested, police said.
The deceased, Poonam Sardana, a boutique owner, was returning home from a temple in Chhatarpur with seven family members around 11.30 p.m. when the car being driven by Shivani Malik, a Ghaziabad resident and daughter of a deceased Delhi police officer, jumped the divider and hit her car.
Poonam died within minutes, said her husband Vimal Sardana. Their daughter Chetanya is in a critical condition in hospital.
An FIR has been registered under sections of the IPC pertaining to culpable homicide, causing death by negligence and rash driving.
