Click to play videoChandigarh: The girl suspected to be driving the Honda Accord that killed two persons on a motorcycle on Tuesday evening in Chandigarh has surrendered. The accused, 19-year-old Amanat Brar, daughter of a retired Army officer, surrendered at Chandigarh's Sector 13 police station on Wednesday. Amanat has now been granted bail on a bond of Rs 50,000.
A car race between a Honda Accord and a Maruti Swift is understood to have led to the fatal accident, killing Sukhwinder Singh, 21, and his cousin Harpreet Singh, 5, who were on the motorcycle. They were hit by the Honda Accord, believed by the police to have been driven by women. Amanat was reportedly drunk at the time of the accident.
The police identified the Honda Accord car bearing a VIP number (CH03-R-0018) as that of retired Lt Col. GS Brar.
Brar's son, BS Brar, a serving lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, told the media on Wednesday morning that no women were driving the car during the time of the accident.
"No women were driving the car. Who is saying all this? My driver was driving the car when the accident happened. He had gone to drop my father for golf," said BS Brar.
Chandigarh Police had registered a case against unidentified women in the Sector 3 police station here.
The drag race in Chandigarh is not the first of its kind to take place this year.
In January this year Nooriya Haveliwala in Mumbai mowed down two persons with her Honda CRV – allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
In April, an elderly man was killed when a speeding BMW hit him in East Delhi.
On May 8, a cabin crew member of Jet Airways was killed when her speeding car had an accident in Mumbai and in the same month on the 30th, in a case of suspected drunken driving, three were killed when a speeding car rammed into two stationary auto-rickshaws at Swami Nagar in south Delhi.
On July 26, four labourers were killed in Delhi after a Honda City rammed into them while they were working at Safdarjung Airport flyover. Police suspected it was a hit-and-run case.
(With inputs from IANS)
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