Kamal Ghorui
Gurgaon: An elderly couple waiting by the roadside for their son to take them home were mowed down in front of him when an SUV swerved towards the edge of the road and ran them over near Sidhrawali bus stand on Saturday evening.Man Singh (62) and his wife, Shakuntala Devi (61), residents of Budhka village, had travelled to Panchkula on April 24 for a family function — a traditional kuan pujan ceremony for a relative’s grandson. After attending it, they were returning home when the accident took place.Their son, Sanjay Nehra — a student — told police he had spoken to his mother at 7.57pm. She told him they had reached Dharuhera and asked him to come to Sidhrawali to pick them up. Nehra left home on his scooter and reached the bus stand, where his parents were waiting by the roadside.But before he could take them home, a light blue Tata Nexon coming from the Gurgaon city side ploughed into them at high speed. Police said the SUV was being driven rashly when it veered towards the roadside and hit the couple with great force.The impact threw both onto the bonnet of the car and into the windscreen before they were flung onto the road. They suffered severe head injuries.Despite the accident unfolding in front of his eyes, Nehra noted down the vehicle’s registration number — DL14CH/6035 — and confronted the driver, Sahibabad resident Dharmendra Bhardwaj (55). Police said he works as a computer engineer with a private company.The injured couple were rushed to Bhiwadi Govt Hospital in Rajasthan, but both died during treatment.After receiving information from the control room, a police team from Bilaspur, led by SI Rakesh, reached the hospital, collected the medicolegal papers and recorded Nehra’s statement.A case was registered at Bilaspur police station against the driver under Section 281 of the BNS for rash driving on a public way and Section 106 for causing death by negligence. He was arrested and later released on bail.
