Delhi Police Arrests Sixth Accused Ashutosh: Kanjhawala Case

Delhi Police arrested the sixth accused, named Ashutosh ahead the Kanjhawala investigation. He owned the Maruti Suzuki Baleno car in connection with Kanjhawala case, where a 20-year-old woman was dragged to death.

Police Officials On The Arrest

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer),  Harendra Kumar Singh said the accused Ashutosh has been arrested from East Delhi.

Further, he said that Ashutosh’s car was the one under which the victim was dragged from 12 KMs on early Sunday morning. Ashutosh had given his car to the driver Amit, added the police official.

On Thursday, police said that there were four men in the car that had dragged the woman after hitting her scooty. They were not five as previously thought.

Special commissioner (law and order) Sagar Preet Hooda had said that interrogation of the five accused revealed the involvement of two more men. The police said the duo had tried to protect the five accused.

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The police had registered FIR against Amit Khanna, Deepak Khanna, Krishan, Mithun and Manoj Mittal for various offences including criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, cause death by negligence and rash driving on public way. On Thursday, a Delhi court sent them to four-day custody.

Moreover, the five accused were taken to medical examination. In a tweet by ANI, “#Watch | Kanjhawala death case: All five accused were taken to Delhi’s Sanjay Gandhi hospital at night for medical examination. Police took them for medical examination at night as part of the precaution.”

“Not Satisfied With The Probe”

Ahead of the investigation, deceased mother expressed that she is not satisfied and not happy with the police probe. “We are not happy with the police investigation. Going by what Nidhi (Anjali’s friend) said, the accused drove the car back and forth knowing that my daughter was stuck under the car. Isn’t that enough to prove that they deliberately killed her?” said Anjali’s mother Rekha.

She refuted Nidhi’s statement about Anjali being drunk and alleged she was “lying”.

Delhi Commissioner for Women’s Chairperson Swati Maliwal has sought a CBI probe into Kanjhawala hit-and-run case. The chairperson said that she was not satisfied with the probe so far.

-Bharat Express