Doctor Dragged For 50 Metres On Car Bonnet In Road Rage Case In Panchkula

The incident occurred when the victim, identified as Dr. Gagan, a resident of MDC, was taking his son back home from tuition.

The incident occurred when the victim, identified as Dr. Gagan, a resident of MDC, was taking his son back home from tuition.

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A doctor was dragged on the bonnet of a car for about 50 metres in an incident of road rage that occurred in Haryana’s Panchkula, as reported by news agency ANI. The video of the road rage incident went viral. The incident occurred when the victim, identified as Dr. Gagan, a resident of MDC, was taking his son back home from tuition, the news agency reported. A case has been registered by Panchkula Police against the car owner on the complaint of Dr. Gagan.

Investigation officer Ravi Dutt said, "In the traffic junction of Sector 8, Panchkula, a car tried to overtake Dr. Gagan's vehicle, but it collided. The doctor wanted to stop the car after the collision. When he went to have a conversation with them, the people in the car dragged him by lifting him to the bonnet for about 50 meters. An FIR has been registered, and the investigation is going on," as per ANI.

The miscreants fled the scene, and Dr. Gagan was immediately taken to Sector 6 Hospital, where he was treated and discharged later.

In another incident, a tractor driver was killed allegedly after his vehicle collided with a speeding truck that dragged him along for about 500 metres after it got stuck between the tyres of the tractor, news agency PTI reported citing police officials. The incident took place on Saturday morning near Shahpur village, Hoshiarpur Superintendent of Police Major Singh said.

Singh said that angry relatives and locals blocked a road for nearly six hours, demanding the arrest of the truck driver, according to a PTI. 

The victim, 21-year-old Sukhdev Singh, was driving a sand-laden tractor-trolley when the truck loaded with a stone crusher collided from behind, police said. Singh, who is from Bhanglan Khera village in the Rupnagar district of Punjab, somehow got trapped between the tyres of his tractor and the speeding truck dragged the tractor for approximately 500 metres.

“The incident was so tragic that Sukhdev’s body parts were scattered in different directions. Subsequently, the truck driver fled the scene with his vehicle," PTI quoted a police official.

Several eye-witnesses told the Hindustan Times that they tried to chase the truck but the driver had managed to flee. The enraged residents of the area staged a protest, led by Sukhdev’s father Jaswinder Singh, who placed the victim’s body at Adda Shahpur, which disrupted traffic for six hours. The protestors demanded the arrest of the accused.

Later, they lifted their dharna after SP Manoj Singh pacified them. The SP said that the accused driver would be arrested soon. 

According to the Hindustan Times report, Garhshankar station house officer Harprem Singh said that police had impounded the truck and registered a case under Section 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC against the accused. A similar incident occurred earlier this week when a farmer was killed after a tractor-trolley ran over him during a protest in Sangrur.