Overview

• Sujeet Mandal, 32, a PVC factory worker from Raja Vihar, was struck near his workplace and dragged before his body was found near the NDPL office gate 5.
• CCTV shows the red car briefly stopping with the victim trapped beneath it before the driver accelerated away despite a cyclist’s warning.
• An FIR under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered at Samaypur Badli police station as investigators preserved slippers, blood samples and other evidence.
• Police identified the driver as a 16-year-old class 11 student, traced the vehicle to Rohini/Mandoli using the registration number, and detained him within about six hours.
• The Juvenile Justice Board sent the minor to a 14-day correctional home, the car registered in his sister’s name was seized, and police indicated parental liability under the Motor Vehicles Act as the probe continues.