New CCTV footage that have emerged in the Kanjhawala case have provided a fresh angle to the incident in which a 23-year-old woman was dragged for nearly 12 km under a car on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. While the police initially tried to pass it off as a simple case of accident, CCTV footage show that the car travelled on Delhi streets in the Sultanpuri area for almost 12 km with the women stuck under the car after being hit by it.






The five persons, who were travelling in the car — Deepak Khanna (26), Amit Khanna (25), Krishan (27), Mithun (26), Manoj Mittal (27) — have been arrested.


Here is the sequence of the events that unfolded on Sunday, January 1:



  • Anjali, an event organizer, was riding a scooter home when a car hit her vehicle. The car's occupants apparently had no idea that they had hit her two-wheeler and continued to drag her for nearly 12 kilometres from Sultanpuri to Kanjhawala in Delhi.

  • She was driving along a small road when the car, a premium hatchback, hit her, trapping her under it.


 







  • At 3:24 in the morning, the police received a call that a body was being dragged under a grey Baleno car. The caller said the car was going towards Qutubgarh. Police checkpoints were informed of the car's probable route.

  • A CCTV footage recorded at 3:28 am shows the woman being dragged under the car.






  • Another CCTV footage showed the car casually take a U-turn in the Kanjhawala area at 3.34 am.







  • At 4:11 in the morning, police were notified by another report that a corpse had been discovered lying on the road. 

  • According to the police, they discovered the body in a terrible state with fractured ribs and severe injuries to her forehead, wrists, and legs. A forensic team was called to the scene to collect samples, after which the body was sent to a hospital.

  • At the hospital, it was determined that she had passed away from the grievous injuries that she had sustained while being dragged under the car. 

  • Police launched a search for the car and nabbed the accused.

  • During interrogation, it came to the fore that the accident had occurred under the jurisdiction of the Sultanpuri police station. The accused, however, claimed that they were oblivious to the fact that the body was stuck under the car, nor were they aware of hitting the woman.






Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Sagar Preet Hooda said a medical board has been constituted in the case. Fresh charges could be added against the five accused arrested in connection with the case on the basis of the post-mortem report.






The accused have been booked on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, causing death by negligence and criminal conspiracy, according to police.


The police sought the custody of the accused for five days on Monday, but a Delhi court granted the cops three-day custody of the five men.