Cops hunt for proof in hit-and-run

Police sources said Dinesh was returning home with a girl friend after a party at their friend’s house in Katwaria Sarai. They were being followed by two friends in another car; the four were on way to Dinesh’s residence in Fatehpur Beri.

Police said Dinesh was speeding at over 100 kmph and had left his friends far behind at the time of the accident on the Africa Avenue-Church Road crossing. Police said the airbags of the Mercedes saved its occupants from serious injuries,while the woman inside the taxi was crushed.

Police said Dinesh helped his friend to get out of the car after the accident. Their friends had reached the spot by then and they took the duo to a private hospital in South Delhi,the police said.

Ten hours after the incident,Dinesh reportedly surrendered at the RK Puram police station. Police said he was made to take a breath analyzer test,which did not find any traces of alcohol. A senior police officer said a blood sample of the accused was later taken and sent for testing to ascertain the presence of alcohol.

Dinesh was booked for causing death due to rash and negligent driving at RK Puram police station and later released on bail.

Police have,meanwhile,also questioned the 33-year-old taxi driver,identified as Naresh Chander.

Chander told the police he was having dinner at the Defence Colony Market late on Thursday when the woman,who is yet to be identified,approached him. She said she wanted to go to Kishangarh village near Vasant Kunj,he told the police.

“He agreed to take the woman,who was dressed in a salwar kameez,to Kishangarh. On the way,he took a detour to Delhi Cantonment with the woman’s permission to buy CNG,” a senior police officer said.

The police are,meanwhile,trying to ascertain the woman’s identity. After her phone was found damaged,the police put the SIM card in another phone and tried her contacts. Sources said only seven numbers were found in the mobile phonebook and each person said they did not know the woman. Police have now sought the call details of her phone.