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Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case: Anjali`s mother suspects `friend` Nidhi`s involvement
A 20-year-old girl, who was Delhi`s Sultanpuri resident, died after she was hit and dragged by a car in national capital`s Kanjhawala area on New Year. Her mortal remains were cremated on Tuesday amid tight security.
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Delhi Kanjhawala case live updates: Victim Anjali's mother suspects 'friend' Nidhi's involvement
The mother of the victim in the horrific Kanjhawala incident in the national capital on Wednesday dismissed claims made by deceased Anjali’s ‘friend’ Nidhi and said that she 'might be involved' in this 'well thought-out conspiracy'. Rekha, the deceased’s mother, said that she does not know Nidhi who claimed to be Anjali’s friend on Tuesday. She was in a drunken state but insisted on driving the two-wheeler. After being hit by the car, she came under the car, and got dragged with it. I was scared and ran away and returned home, didn’t tell anything to anyone.
Delhi Kanjhawala case live updates: Nirbhaya's mother meets Anjali's family
Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya who was gang-raped and murdered in 2012, on Wednesday met the family of the 20-year-old woman, who died after being hit by a car in the Kanjhawala area of the national capital and then dragged for a few kilometres on the road. After meeting with the deceased`s family, Asha Devi urged the authorities to investigate the case and financially support the family. She also said that a job should be given to a family member as soon as possible.
"I request authorities to investigate the case and support the family financially. The job should be given to the family member as soon as possible. I do not level allegations on anyone but I do not support what that girl (Nidhi) has said in her statement," said Nirbhaya`s mother.
Kanjhawala death case: 'Anjali never consumed alcohol', says her mother
Anjali's mother while denying her friend's claim said "I don't know Nidhi, I have never seen her. Anjali never used to drink, she never came home in an inebriated state, and we don't believe whatever claims Nidhi made."
Delhi Kanjhawala Case Live Updates: ‘Will submit report MHA after investigation,' says special CP Shalini Singh
Special CP of Delhi Police said that the enquiry is underway into the incident and they are analysing every perspective, ANI reported. “Once that's done we'll submit the report to the union ministry of home affairs,” she further said.
Delhi Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case Live Updates: Nidhi should have informed about the incident says Anjali's family
Anjali's family members claim that they have never seen Nidhi with her daughter and that she is making false statements about Anjali's death.“Nidhi and her family should have informed police about the incident. Nidhi should be interrogated. She too is involved. We demand CBI enquiry in the case, it isn't small case, it's a painful incident,” said Anjali's maternal uncle.
Kanjhawala accident: Police collect call history of victim, her friend and accused persons
The Delhi Police have collected the call detail records (CDR) of the victim, her friend who was with her on that fateful night, and the five accused persons, to ascertain the sequence of events that led to the accident.
"The call detail records of Anjali, her friend Nidhi, and the accused persons have been collected. The investigators are waiting for an analysis of the call details, which will confirm their location at the time of the incident," news agency IANS quoted sources as saying.
Kanjhawla case: CCTV footage shows victim's friend returning home at 2.30 am on accident night
The friend of the woman who was killed after being dragged by a car was seen returning home around 2.30 am, about 45 minutes after they left the hotel where they attended a New Year party, according to CCTV footage recovered by police. The victim's friend, wearing a red sweatshirt with a hoodie, was seen anxiously kicking her house door and pacing up and down, the footage showed.
The footage showed the victim leaving the hotel around 1.45 am after a New Year party.
After scanning footage from multiple CCTV cameras, police ascertained that the victim's friend was riding pillion on her scooty and fled after the accident. Anjali Singh was killed in the early hours of the New Year after her scooter was hit by a car which dragged her for 12 kilometres from Sultanpuri to Kanjhawala where her body was found.Kanjhawla case: No signs of victim consuming alcohol in autopsy report, says family doc
The family doctor of the woman, who was killed after being hit and dragged by a car here, rejected her friend's claims that she was heavily drunk on the night of the incident, saying the autopsy report did not find any trace of alcohol in her stomach.
The victim's friend, who was riding pillion on her scooty, had told the media that Anjali was drunk and had insisted on driving the two-wheeler on the fateful night.
Kanjhawala case: Rs 10 lakh to be given to victim's family, says Manish Sisodia
Kanjhawala case: Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia has said that Rs 10 lakh will be given to the victim's family and efforts will be made to provide a job to one of her family members.
After visiting the victim's residence, he also slammed BJP for using all its powers to destroy the Opposition "instead of controlling law and order".
Kanjhawla case: Stop questioning victim's 'character', Delhi women's panel chief urges people
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday urged people to stop questioning the morals of the Kanjhawla victim in the aftermath of claims made by her friend who was accompanying her at the time of the accident. The victim's friend who was riding a pillion at the time of the accident claimed that the deceased was drunk at the time and had insisted on riding the two-wheeler.
Maliwal questioned why she had kept silent till the police traced her on the basis of footage from CCTV cameras.
"Anjali's friend has put the blame on her. She was with Anjali when the accident happened. She left from the spot and went home. Didn't she feel the need to inform (the) police or Anjali's family about what had happened?
"She could have followed the car that was dragging Anjali, who must have been crying for help. She could have done something so that Anjali's life could have been saved. What kind of friend is she?," Maliwal said.
Demanding a probe into the friend's claims, Maliwal said Singh died a painful death and she should not suffer "character assassination".
"She died a painful death. She was dragged on Delhi's roads for 12 kilometres and her body was found naked. The claims of her friend need to be investigated. Anjali should not be blamed for what happened to her. The accused should be hanged," she said.
Kanjhawala death case: Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia visits victim's residence
Kanjhawala accident death case: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia visits the residence of the victim, a resident of Sultanpuri.
Delhi Girl Accident: Kanjhawala victim had 40 external injuries, skull fractured, says autopsy report
Delhi Girl Accident Latest Updates: There were at least 40 external injuries, ribs exposed from the back as the skin had peeled away, the base of the skull was fractured and some brain matter was missing, said sources citing the autopsy report of the 20-year-old woman.
"The provisional cause of death is due to shock and haemorrhage as a result of ante mortem injury to the head, spine, left femur, and both lower limbs. All injuries produced by blunt force impact and possible with vehicular accident and dragging," the report said.
The woman was dragged for about 12 km from Sultanpuri to Kanjhawala after her clothes got entangled in the wheel of the car which hit the scooty she was driving.
Kanjhawala death case: Victim was stuck onto front left wheel of car
Kanjhawala death case: The Forensic Science Laboratory on Wednesday said that initial examination of the accused's car suggests that the Delhi accident victim was stuck onto the front left wheel of the vehicle.
"Most blood stains were found behind the front left wheel. Blood stains have been found on other parts also, under the car," the FSL said.
"No sign of the woman present inside the car found so far," the report added.
Kanjhawala accident: Another Delhi shocker, jilted lover stabs girl in Adarsh Nagar
Days after the horrific Kanjhawala accident, another incident has rocked Delhi. A jilted lover reportedly stabbed a girl in North West Delhi's Adarsh Nagar and was held by the police from Haryana's Ambala.
The incident was also caught on camera.
According to the news agency IANS, the girl said that she was on her way to an education institute when the accused met her. Since she knew him she didn't expect that he would attack her. The accused, on the pretext of discussing a matter, took her to a street and suddenly stabbed her.
"He wanted me to continue the friendship between us. I didn't want to be in a relationship with him. We were friends, but due to some issue, I broke this friendship. Since then he was pressurizing me. On January 2, he met me and again asked me to continue the friendship but when I refused he stabbed me," the girl told the police, IANS reported.
Reacting to the incident, Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Swati Maliwal asked for how long would such crimes go on.
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: 20-year-old victim was not sexually assaulted, indicates autopsy
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: The preliminary postmortem report of the 20-year-old woman indicated "no injury suggestive of sexual assault", according to Delhi Police.
Doctors of the MAMC board who carried out the autopsy opined that the provisional cause of death was "shock and haemorrhage as a result of antemortem injury to the head, spine, left femur and lower limbs".
"All injuries collectively can cause death in the ordinary course of nature. However, injury to the head, spine, long bone and other injuries can cause death independently and collectively in the ordinary course of nature," the doctors said.
"All injuries produced by blunt force impact and possible with vehicular accident and dragging," the preliminary report said.
The doctors said they would be able to offer a final opinion after the receipt of the chemical analysis and biological sample reports.
"Also, the report indicates that there is no injury suggestive of sexual assault. The final report will be received in due course," Sagar Preet Hooda, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) said.
Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case Live: AAP 'making politically motivated' statements, says BJP's Virendra Sachdeva
Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case Live Coverage: Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva has said that the statements being made by the AAP leaders in wake of the Sultanpuri mishap (Kanjhawala case) are "politically motivated" and "condemnable".
"It is a matter of regret that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself has spoken irresponsibly in this matter and he has given freedom to his party colleagues to speak freely in this sensitive matter which is not desired," Sachdeva said.
Sachdeva also said that the manner in which AAP leaders have been "making personal comments against the LG of Delhi and a Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police is completely motivated by political bias".
"The people of Delhi have seen in the last seven months that the present Lt. Governor has taken several decisions in the interest of Delhi while speeding up the development works like cleaning the Yamuna river banks and Najafgarh drain, besides his (LG`s) decisions on liquor scam, advertisement scam recovery order, classroom scam inquiry, exposure of Minister Satyendra Jain`s lavish jail stay have politically exposed the AAP government," the BJP leader said.
He pointed out that AAP leaders are attacking the LG with "political bias as the Delhi Police comes under the Centre and reports to the LG, but the people of Delhi are well aware of all this and have themselves seen how in the last 48 hours the Delhi Police has been promptly piecing together the links of the Sultanpuri accident, the matter is almost on the verge of being solved".
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: 'Response system of police has collapsed', says Kiran Bedi
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: Reacting to the Kanjhawala accident case, former IPS officer Kiran Bedi on Tuesday called for a need for the revival of the earlier police response system through police control room vans.
In an interview with the news agency ANI, Bedi said, "I think the response system of the police has collapsed. Because, the earlier system of the police control room vans, where you had a mobile police force, there were police vans in hundreds, spread all over the city. It was a very well-established system, developed over the years by respective police commissioners. Sometimes, I do not understand when and why the system was dismantled. The police control vans were handed over and given to police, probably to strengthen their resource-- vehicular and manpower."
"Instead of the police control room vans, which were like the mobile police force, who were always moving around different corners, on getting a call, they would have responded to the incident," she added.
Kanjhawala accident case: Stop victim-shaming, DCW chief slams 'cheap statements'
Kanjhawala accident case: DCW chief has also slammed "cheap statements" being shown on TV in connection with the Delhi's Kanjhawala accident case, and asked people to stop victim-shaming.
In a tweet in Hindi, Swati Maliwal said, "Cheap statements of the hotel owner are being shown on TV since morning wherein he is saying that the women had consumed alcohol, were fighting and he had thrown them out. If the women were fighting after getting drunk, police would have been called. Why were they kicked out of the hotel late at night? What is the proof of intoxication? STOP VICTIM SHAMING!"
Kanjhawala Accident Case Live Updates: Claims made by victim's friend should be 'probed', says DCW chief
Kanjhawala Accident Case Live Updates: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Tuesday demanded that the claims made by the Kanjhawala case victim's friend, who was with her at the time of the accident but fled the spot out of fear, should be "probed".
"Anjali's friend is telling during a live show how some men mowed down Anjali in front of her and this 'friend' went home from there. What kind of a friend is she? She didn't stop the men, didn't inform the police or Anjali's relatives... She went home. It is important to probe this aspect," Maliwal wrote in a tweet in Hindi.
Delhi Girl Accident Live Updates: 'Anjali ko insaaf do' banners seen during her funeral
Delhi Girl Accident Live Updates: "Anjali ko insaaf do" banners were seen during her funeral on Tuesday. Amid heavy police deployment, teary-eyed family members and neighbors moved alongside the ambulance carrying her mortal remains from her residence to the crematorium.
Scores of people carrying banners that read "Anjali ko insaaf do (Give justice to Anjali)" also joined the funeral procession.
They were accompanied by protesters who demanded that the five accused be hanged.
Kanjhawala case: Victim's friend, who fled after accident, gives statement to Delhi Police
Kanjhawala case: The victim's friend, who was riding a pillion with her and fled after the accident, recorded her statement with Delhi Police on Tuesday.
With the emergence of the eyewitness, police has said that her account will be important evidence in getting the accused punished.
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: Men who dragged Kanjhawala victim under their car killed her 'deliberately', says her friend
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: The five men who dragged the 20-year-old woman under their car in outer Delhi on New Year killed her "deliberately" as they kept driving despite knowing she was stuck under the vehicle, the victim's friend, who was riding a pillion on her scooty when the incident happened, said.
"The brown colour Baleno hit the scooter from the opposite side. She fell in front of the car and I fell on the side. They ran the car over her. And they knew that she was under the car but they did not stop. She was yelling. They deliberately killed her," the friend told media persons on Tuesday.
"I ran from the spot as I was scared and did not understand what to do," she added.
Kanjhawala Case: 'She was drunk, threatened to jump off scooty if she was not allowed to drive', claims victim's friend
Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case Live Updates: The 20-year-old Delhi woman was drunk and threatened to jump off the moving two-wheeler if she was not allowed to drive her scooter, her friend, who was riding pillion on her scooty when the incident happened, claimed.
"We left the hotel at around 1.45 am. She (Anjali) wanted to ride the scooty but I said no I will ride it. After we left and were on the move, Anjali said she would jump from the two-wheeler if she was not allowed to drive. It is my scooty and I will drive it she told me," the friend said.
Asked why she did not inform anyone immediately after the incident, the Kanjhawala case victim's friend said, "I got scared that's why I did not tell anyone."
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: Kanjhawala case victim cremated
Delhi Girl Accident Live Coverage: The mortal remains of the 20-year-old were cremated on Tuesday amid tight security.
LIVE Coverage | Delhi Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case
Delhi Kanjhawala Girl Accident Case LIVE Coverage: A 20-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a car and dragged for around 12 kilometres in Delhi. The girl was killed in the early hours of the New Year and her body was found in the national capital's Kanjhawala area.
She was reportedly from Delhi's Sultanpuri and worked part-time with an event management firm.
New Delhi: Massive outrage continues in Delhi over the horrific death of a 20-year-old woman who was killed after being hit by a car and dragged for around 12 kilometres. The girl, who was from Delhi's Sultanpuri and worked part-time with an event management firm, was killed in the early hours of the New Year and her body was found in the capital's Kanjhawala area. Her mortal remains were cremated on Tuesday amid tight security. The five men who were allegedly in the car have been booked for culpable homicide among other sections and were sent to three-day police custody on Monday.
A fresh CCTV footage surfaced on Tuesday which showed the victim and her friend -- who was riding pillion with her -- fighting outside a hotel just hours before the accident. Another footage showed their scooty passing through a narrow street and then seconds later a car going the other way, leaving a lone shoe behind.
According to Police, the two were partying with four or five others at the hotel.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the victim's family and assured that the government will appoint the "best lawyer" to fight the case.
Aam Aadmi Party sought the dismissal of the DCP of the Outer District for allegedly shielding the accused.
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