A thirty-five-year-old woman got killed after her scooty was hit by a speeding truck and reportedly her body got dragged for 3 km by the truck. Later the truck caught fire colliding with the divider in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, said the police.
In a significant development in the Kanjhawala case, Delhi Police on Thursday added the 'destruction of evidence' section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to the FIR against the accused.
A Delhi Court on Thursday extended the police custody for four days of all the five persons, accused of hitting a 20-year-old girl and dragging her for a considerable distance leading to her death in Outer Delhi's Kanjhawala.
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction with the Delhi Police's action in the Kanjhawala case and demanded that it be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The maternal uncle of Delhi girl Anjali, who died in the horrific hit-and-drag incident at Khanjawala on New Year's night, on Wednesday said the deceased's friend Nidhi is making conspiracy by claiming the victim was drunk on the day of the incident.
The mother of Delhi girl Anjali, who died in the horrific hit-and-drag incident at Khanjawala on New Year's night, on Wednesday refuted the claims of the deceased's friend Nidhi saying her daughter never consumed alcohol.
Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya who was gang-raped and murdered in 2012, on Wednesday met the family of the 20-year-old women, who died after being hit by a car in the Khanjawala area of the national capital and then dragged for a few kilometres on the road.
The mother of the victim in the horrific Kanjhawala incident in the national capital on Wednesday dismissed claims made by deceased Anjali's 'friend' Nidhi and said that she "might be involved" in this "well-thought-out conspiracy".
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Kiran Bedi said, "I think the response system of the police has collapsed. Because, the earlier system of the police control room vans, where you had a mobile police force, there were police vans in hundreds, spread all over the city. It was a very well-es
"After the car hit us, I fell to one side. My friend got stuck under the car. Men knew that the girl had stuck under their car, still, they deliberately kept dragging her," she said.
"It is the fault of the girl who was driving in an inebriated state. I insisted to her so much that don't drive, I am conscious, let me drive. She didn't believe me and believed herself," Nidhi added.