Friday, 01 December 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The police have arrested the accused responsible for the death of the duo whose bodies were found in Dehradun’s Vasant Vihar area on November 26. The woman and the man had fallen into the canal and on the roadside respectively after being hit by the accused’s vehicle. After the accident he pulled the man’s body and put it near the woman.
The police have arrested the accused who has claimed that he accidentally hit the duo Sandeep Mohan Dhasmana (40) and Hemlata (37) as the left headlight of his vehicle was damaged, said the Dehradun senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh. He said that the post-mortem report of both deceased had revealed that they died due to internal injuries, which is possible after getting hit by a heavy object and the police suspected it to be a hit-and-run case. The accused Sharukh (23), a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, confessed that he could not see both victims clearly on Sunday around 5:30 AM as the left headlight of his vehicle was also damaged due to which he hit the duo.
After the woman fell near the canal and the man on the roadside, he pulled his body near the woman to ensure people did not observe them and called the police. Singh said that the police analysed 150 cameras to identify the vehicle. He said, “We got only a broken piece of headlight from near the body as a clue. We sent it to different companies to identify which company’s vehicle it belongs to.
One of the companies identified it after which we started looking for the vehicle of that certain company via CCTV footage of the incident site. We finally identified the accused who confessed that he accidentally hit the victims from behind after he was returning from selling milk in the Vasant Vihar area.”
