SUV rams into 'kachori' shop in Delhi's Civil Lines, 6 injured
New Delhi, Apr 2: A speeding SUV rammed into a famous 'kachori' shop in north Delhi's Civil Lines area, injuring six people, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Rajpur Road on Sunday afternoon.
A purported CCTV footage of the incident doing the rounds on social media showed the white SUV hitting some people standing outside the shop and tossing them in the air before ramming into a wall.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) M K Meena said the car driver, identified as businessman and advocate Parag Maini, a resident of Sector 79 in Noida, was nabbed from the spot. His Mercedes-Benz SUV was also impounded.
"According to preliminary medical examination, the driver was not under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. His blood sample has been preserved for further analysis as the investigation is underway," he said.
The injured, including some shop workers, were taken to Tirath Ram Shah Hospital in Civil Lines and were discharged after treatment. Two of them sustained fractures, police said.
Maini, along with his wife, had come to the shop to have kachori, another police officer said.
"While parking his car outside the shop, he lost control of the vehicle when he mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes," the officer said.
The shop, which is quite famous in the area, was not too crowded at the time of the accident otherwise, it would have led to a bigger tragedy, he said.
Shop owner Nand Kishore said he had a narrow escape as he was going home to have lunch.
"I had just come out of the shop when the SUV rammed into the shop. The driver wanted to park his vehicle but he lost control of the vehicle," he said.
Another eyewitness said the shop adjacent to the 'kachori' shop was also damaged.
Police said a case under sections 279 (rash driving) and 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Civil Lines police station in connection with the matter.
#WATCH | 6 people got injured after a speeding car rammed into a Kachori shop on Delhi's Rajpur Road on March 31.
— ANI (@ANI) April 2, 2024
A case has been registered at PS Civil Lines and the driver of the car, Parag Maini, has been arrested and the offending vehicle has been seized. According to… pic.twitter.com/kg9OYcH1Ip
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ACB case against Sisodia, Jain a political move to pressurise them: AAP
New Delhi (PTI): The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday said the ACB's case against its leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain was registered to "pressurise and scare" them as they were recently appointed as incharge and co-incharge of Punjab party unit.
The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government has filed a case against former deputy CM and education minister Sisodia, and ex-PWD minister Jain, over alleged corruption in the construction of government schools.
The scam is pegged at around Rs 2,000 crore and involved awarding contracts at highly inflated rates with classrooms reportedly built at Rs 24.86 lakh each, nearly five times the usual cost, the ACB added in a statement.
Reacting to the development, the BJP said there was corruption in the construction of schools in Delhi under the previous AAP government.
AAP national media in-charge Anurag Dhanda in a press conference dismissed the charges and said the case was a "political" move to "pressurise and scare" Sisodia and Jain.
"The way cases are being registered against Sisodia and other leaders, I feel there could soon be cases against him for occupying the minister's seat, for forgetting to put a comma or a full stop in a document," Dhanda said.
Dhanda added that the BJP government does no work, instead it files cases against AAP leaders on every matter.
"It can not be a mere coincidence that earlier a case was registered against party leader Durgesh Pathak when he became co-incharge of Gujarat. Now, a case has been registered against Sisodia and Satyendar Jain who are in charge and co-incharge of the Punjab unit of AAP," Dhanda stated.
Earlier in March, the AAP appointed Sisodia as in-charge and former minister Jain as co-in-charge of the Punjab unit of the party.
"The BJP should understand it well that AAP leaders are not scared by their agencies like ED and CBI or such empty threats," Dhanda added.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva demanded the ACB to probe the role of then chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal in the alleged scam.
"This is a decisive moment in the fight against corruption of AAP and its previous government in Delhi," he said.
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