Overview

• Investigators say she tried to avoid a stray dog near Carte Chowk in Shastri Nagar around 1 am, fell from her motorcycle, and a Maruti Wagon-R struck her.
• She was taken to Sarvodaya Hospital, where doctors declared her dead on arrival, according to police.
• Officers seized the Maruti Wagon-R abandoned by the fleeing driver and registered a case for rash driving and causing death by negligence under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• A post-mortem was completed, the body was handed to her family with state honours, and she had joined the force in 2023 with a posting at the Shastri Nagar outpost.
• The incident has renewed concern over stray-dog hazards following the Supreme Court's August 11 directive to remove and rehabilitate strays in Delhi-NCR.