Car runs over 3-year-old

Sonu’s father Ram Sarup pulls a rickshaw for a living,while mother Ram Piyari works as a domestic help. He was youngest of the couple’s five children. The incident occurred in the morning when Sonu,accompanied by other children,had gone to the Sai Mandir in Sector 29 to partake langar.

On their way back,the children were crossing the road when the speeding car hit Sonu. According to eyewitnesses,it was a radio taxi driven by someone wearing a turban. The driver of the car stopped and told the panicked children that he would take Sonu,who was still alive,to hospital and put him in the car,the police said. The boy was later found by one Mandeep Singh,a resident of Manimajra who was passing by the area,in Sector 18.

“The child had sustained serious head injuries and was bleeding profusely. I requested autorickshaw drivers and other people to help me take him to hospital. But no one came forward. I somehow managed to take the child to GMSH-16. After around 25 minutes,doctors told me that the child had died,” said Mandeep.

Ram Piyari said when the other children narrated the incident to her,she asked her eldest son Rakesh to find out where Sonu was taken. At GMSH-16,he was told that his brother was no more.

The police have registered a case under Sections 279,304 A and 201 of the CrPC for rash driving,causing death due to negligence and destruction of evidence. One of the eyewitnesses told the police that while he could not read the series of the car’s registration number,its last four digits were “9984”.

L K Khurana,president of Lions Welfare Society,brought the family to the Industrial Area police station,where the case was registered. He said he was passing by the traffic signal when he saw the crying family and decided to help them.