A homeless man was killed after being hit by a vehicle in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh area, an officer said on Tuesday, adding that the police have seized the offending vehicle.
The accident came to light after a PCR call was received on Monday regarding an injured man lying on Bhagwan Mahavir Marg in front of a clinic in AD Block in Shalimar Bagh.
A police team rushed to the spot and found the injured man, later identified as Akshay Lal Yadav, who had been living on a nearby footpath for several years.
“He was shifted to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial (BJRM) Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead,” the officer said.
The crime team and the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team inspected the scene as part of the investigation.
The police said a damaged vehicle was found abandoned at the spot and seized. Examination of CCTV footage from the area confirmed that the man died in a road accident involving the vehicle, he said.
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No eyewitness to the incident has been traced, the police said, adding that efforts are underway to reconstruct the sequence of events and identify the accused driver.
A case has been registered and further investigation into the matter is underway.
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