Canada based man runs over 114 year old Fauja Singh
Canada based man runs over 114 year old Fauja Singh
In a most shocking incident a Canada-based man identified as Amritpal Singh Dhillon driving a Fortuner run mowed down an 114 year old Fauja Singh a an oldest marathoner in Chandigarh.
The accused told the police that he wasn’t aware that the victim aged 114 was an oldest marathoner but only came to know through a news. The 26 year old Amritpal Singh has since been arrested for
ramming his car into Singh, popularly known as ‘Turbaned Tornado’, on a highway in the veteran runner’s native village of Bias in Punjab’s Jalandhar district on Monday.
Dhillon was arrested from his Kartarpur home, and his vehicle, a Punjab-registered Toyota Fortuner, has also been seized.
At a press conference a senior police officer Harvinder Singh Virk revealed after arresting the accused that he the accused had come to India on June 23.
Dhillon had gone to Canada on a tourist visa but got a work permit there, which is valid till 2027 adding that the accused Dhillon was speeding as he was in a hurry for some work.
Addind that he got scared after hitting Fauja Singh, and that is why he did not stop his car at the spot.
Virk further said it was Dhillon’s responsibility to stop the vehicle at the time of the accident and should have taken Fauja Singh to a hospital.
Multiple teams of the police zeroed in on Amritpal Singh Dhillon after his car was identified using CCTV footage.
They found some parts of the car from the crime scene. The pieces were then shown to the experts, who said the vehicle was an old model of a Toyota Fortuner,” Virk told reporters.
“When they scanned the CCTV, the part recovered was missing from a Fortuner vehicle. They were then confident that the accident happened with the said vehicle.
The number plate revealed that the vehicle was registered in the name of Varinder Singh, a resident of Kapurthala.
The police then interrogated Singh, who said he had sold his car to the accused. Dhillon was then caught in his village and he admitted to the crime.
He also told police that he had got one of the tyres of the SUV changed on the day of the incident.
News Edit KV Raman
