In one of unfortunate incidents, three women, including a 28-year- old, were reportedly crushed to death by a vehicle driven by a Delhi Police sub-inspector in Badarpur area here as he apparently dozed off at the wheels, a day after a traffic policeman was sacked and arrested for assaulting a woman.
Rishi Pal (59), currently posted with PCR Command at the police headquarters, was arrested and suspended from service and a case under 304 (A) of IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) was slapped on him, a senior police official said. The deceased, all of whom were sanitation workers, have been identified as Shakuntala (55), Meera (50) and Maya (28).
The incident took place around 9:30 AM near a toll plaza on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road in South East Delhi when the sanitation workers were cleaning the road. The sub-inspector hit them at high speed, investigators said. Pal, who is due to retire from service in January next year, had night duty at Police Headquarters and was returning to his home in Faridabad driving his Santro car, they said, adding he apparently dozed off and lost control of the car. Speaking more on the occasion, eyewitnesses stated that all the victims died on the spot.
