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Haryana Head Constable Bailed After Arrest in Crash That Killed Two Schoolboys

Police say forensic tests on the officer’s blood sample will determine alleged intoxication.

Overview

  • The car hit three brothers walking home from school in Uttawar, Palwal, killing Mohammad Ayan, 13, and Mohammad Ahsaan, 9, and leaving their 7-year-old sibling, Mohammad Arjaan, in critical condition at PGIMS Rohtak.
  • The accused, identified as head constable Narender Singh posted in Nuh, was chased by villagers, detained, and handed to police after he tried to flee the scene.
  • A case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 281 (rash driving) and 106(1) (causing death by negligence) was registered, the vehicle was seized, and postmortems were completed.
  • He was produced in a Palwal court and granted bail because the invoked sections are bailable, and police preserved his blood samples for forensic analysis.
  • Villagers demanded transparency over the medical examination as extra police were deployed, and locals said ambulance delays forced them to rush the children to hospital on motorcycles.