Police on Thursday, greater than 24 hours after the incident, continued their hunt for the driving force of a Volkswagen Beetle that killed three people, besides injuring four others, after hitting a motorbike close to Botanical Garden at Sarangpur in Chandigarh on Wednesday evening.
The driver of the automotive, recognized as Parambir Singh, a resident of Zirakpur, has been on the run for the reason that accident.
A police officer mentioned {that a} staff had raided the Zirakpur home, to which the automotive was discovered to be registered, on Wednesday evening itself, however had didn’t nab Parambir Singh.
The officer added that the police have come to learn about a second property that the businessman owned in Sector 20 in Panchkula. A subsequent raid at that property as nicely led to nothing. He added that the police had managed to acquire the variety of the businessman, however his telephone was switched off.
Meanwhile, the kin of the victims on Thursday held a protest, throughout which they raised apprehensions that the police may nab another person and make them the scapegoat so as to save the businessman.
Ranjeet, the son of one of many deceased Rajvati Devi, mentioned, “We obtained the particulars of the registered owner of the Beetle car on our own. We later handed over the details to the police. Despite this, the police have failed to arrest the accused driver. The driver and his woman accomplices escaped from the accident spot in full public view.”
When contacted, SSP (UT) Kanwardeep Kaur mentioned, “Our investigation suggests that the car driver escaped from the spot on foot after ditching his vehicle. He did not use any getaway vehicle and also has switched off his cell phone. Our team visited his known address to which the red coloured Beetle car was found to be registered. We will summon the owner of the car tand ask him who was driving the car when the accident took place on yesterday [Wednesday] evening.”