A Dwarka court has reprimanded the police for presenting a witness with pieces of evidence to solve the hit-and-run accident in which a 19-year-old Zepto delivery partner died. The court said that the men in uniform had obtained “tragic pleasure by converting a bailable offense into a non-bailable offence” according to their whims, hobbies and pleasures.
Karan, a Zepto delivery partner, was a slum dweller in Goyla dairy area, who, according to his family, started working for Zepto, a supermarket delivery service only a month ago to save money for his sister’s wedding in November . financial assistance of 10 lakh to Karan’s family, plus an insurance grant 8 lakh, according to a statement from the firm.
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Responding to the earlier claim of the police, the court observed that there is no evidence on record that the accused was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the alleged offence.
“If this is happening capital of this countryThe Indian Express quoted Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma as saying, “Only God knows what will be the fate of civil liberties in other parts of the country.”
A 34-year-old employee of a computer firm was arrested days after the Zipto delivery partner died from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run in Dwarka. Sudhakar Yadav, a resident of Dwarka Sector 18, was named as an accused by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Shankar Choudhary, who allegedly attacked Karan, a Zipto delivery partner, a resident of Goyla Dairy, when he was around 11.30 pm on May night. After dinner I was going home. 16.
According to Chaudhary, the accused claimed that the area was dark and there were two bikes in front of him. In an attempt to save the first, he hit the second. Thereafter the accused returned home, kept the accident a secret from his family and gave the car for repairs.
After the incident, the officials found a piece of bumper of the offending vehicle and started searching for the vehicle. “We checked all the workshops of the brand of car in the vicinity and found the automobile at a facility in Matiala, following which the accused was traced,” the official said.