A 45-year-old man who works as a liaison for a developer in the Delhi-NCR region was arrested for mowing down a 34-year-old man on a bicycle with his luxury car in Ashram, southeast Delhi on Saturday, police said on Sunday. The car, a Mercedes-Benz, hit the victim’s bicycle from behind on the Ashram-Bhogal flyover and dragged him for 150 metres before speeding away, police said. The victim was identified as Rajesh Kumar, a gardener who lived in Madanpur Khadar, said police.
A passerby who spotted the victim lying in a pool of blood on the flyover called the Sunlight Colony police station at 8am, police said. “We rushed to the spot and found a body lying on the roadside. The victim’s cycle was lying 150 metres away.
The car, a Mercedes-Benz, had hit and dragged him and then sped away from the spot,” said Harsh Indora, additional deputy commissioner of police (southeast). Police registered a case, checked CCTV footage around the flyover and identified the car’s registration number. The car’s ownership documents revealed that it belonged to two builders who work in Delhi and the National Capital Region, said police.
“The car was in the name of their company. They told us that last month, they had given the car to the suspect, who is a liaison for their company, to sell it off. They told us where the suspect could be found and gave us his house address.
But in the meantime, the suspect surrendered before us at the Sunlight Colony police station on Saturday,” said .