India | Updated Nov 08, 2007 at 01:27am IST

Deccan worker's vehicle, killer nabbed

Jemima RohekarJemima Rohekar, CNN-IBN

New Delhi: The Delhi Police may have finally solved the hit-and-run case at Delhi airport in which 25-year-old Sanskriti Sinha had been found dead on the taxiway, on October 22.

Police sources have informed CNN-IBN that a Follow-Me Scorpio had run over Sinha.

They police say that they have not only nabbed the vehicle but also the prime suspect - a driver in the employ of the airport traffic department.

Speaking exclusively CNN-IBN, police say that Sinha's death appears appears to be a genuine accident case. The airport staff-member had been driving the Scorpio on the night of October 22 when the car hit Sinha and killed her on the spot.

Interestingly, the suspect himself had notified the police about the incident without confessing that he had been at the wheel.

The suspect had changed the tyres of the car before staying with the police for four hours after the accident.

Sources told CNN-IBN that they zeored in on the driver because of the changed tyres and because he was able to narrate details of the accident to them, although the accident has not a produced single eyewitness thus far.

However, the police neither arrested nor detained the driver. They have admitted that they are under pressure from certain quarters to not drag the airport authorities into the incident.

With inputs from Manoj Gupta

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