Beetle crash: Bizman’s son to face culpable homicide charge
A year and a half after three persons were killed and five injured after a speeding Volkswagen Beetle car rammed into them on May 17, 2023, near the Botanical Garden at Sarangpur here, the Chandigarh Police have filed a chargesheet against Paramveer Singh Dhola, 19-year-old son of a businessman.
The police have filed the charge sheet against the accused for offences punishable under Sections 304, (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 337 (whoever causes hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life), 338 (causing grievous hurt to someone by an act that endangers the life or personal safety of others) and 279 (rash driving) of IPC.
The accused is national-level shooting player and BA first-year student in a college in Sector 32, Chandigarh.
The police registered the case after three persons, including a woman selling corn on the roadside, were killed and five others injured when a speeding Beetle rammed into them after hitting a motorcycle.
As per the police, the car, bearing a Punjab registration number, hit a parked motorcycle before running over seven people on a footpath along the Dhanas-Sarangpur road around 7 pm.
The motorcycle belonged to one Karamjeet Singh who had stopped to buy corn from the roadside vendor.
The police claimed that the accused was returning after attending a training session at a nearby shooting range. He was sitting with a woman in the red Beetle car and they managed to flee the spot after the accident, leaving behind the damaged car, the police added.
Initially, the police had booked an unknown driver for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rash driving and damaging property.
The car was found registered in the name of the accused’s father, a businessman from Zirakpur, who is settled in Panchkula.
The incident witnessed protest from people after kin of the victims blocked Dhanas-Mullanpur road and raised slogans against the police. The accused was arrested three days after the incident.
