Noida: Woman, daughter waiting for auto run over by speeding SUV

NOIDA: A 46-year-old woman and her 19-year-old daughter were run over by an SUV while they were waiting for an auto on a footpath under the Sector 37 flyover early Monday morning. While the vehicle was identified from a number plate that came loose and fell at the spot after it dashed into the kerb, its driver is on the run.
The woman’s husband, Ramkaran Sharma (47), who is from Agra, told police that he, his wife Neeraj and their daughter Anjali returned to Noida around 1am after a pilgrimage to Mathura’s Govardhan and were looking for transport to reach their home in Sector 101.Ramkaran said he was talking to an auto driver a few metres away when a Scorpio came speeding from the Shashi Chowk side, broke the railing around the green belt and crashed into Neeraj and Anjali.
“The driver reversed the SUV and knocked me down too,” he said. While Ramkaran suffered injuries in his arms, Neeraj and Ankita had serious injuries in the head and other parts of the body.
Cops reached the accident spot, which is located 50 metres from the Sector 37 police chowki, and rushed the family to Kailash Hospital in Sector 27. Staff at the hospital said Neeraj and Anjali were unconscious when they were brought around 1.15 am and declared dead after examination. A police officer said the teenager was breathing on the way to the medical facility.
“The girl was declared dead around 2.16am. Her mother had been bleeding heavily from her mouth and nose. She had abrasions from abdomen and forearm and was declared brought dead,” Dr Sarika Chandra, medical officer at the hospital, said.
Sector 39 SHO Rajiv Baliyan said with the help of the broken number plate, the Scorpio owner was identified as Amit Chauhan, a property dealer in Sector 53’s Gijhore village. Sub-inspector Pramod Kumar said his house was locked and only his tenants — he has rented out two floors — were present when cops went to arrest him. An FIR has been lodged against Chauhan under IPC sections 304A (death due to negligence), 279 (rash driving) and 338 (grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life) at the Sector 39 police station.
In the past three months, this is the fourth case of hit-and-run in Noida. Similar incidents were reported from Phase III police station area and sectors 108 and 45. None of the accused has been arrested so far in any of the cases.