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Gaganpreet Kaur, the accused woman who was driving the BMW car, which hit and killed a Finance Ministry official in the national capital earlier this month, was granted bail by a Delhi court on Saturday. She was asked to furnish a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh. The Patiala House Court heard the case on Saturday. Before pronouncing the verdict, the court said an ambulance reached the spot of the accident within seconds, and it remained there for at least 30 seconds and did not take the injured to the hospital. The court stated that the ambulance, with paramedics on board, had a duty to transport the injured to the hospital and suggested it may be a case of medical negligence. “What should be done with this ambulance? Are they not accused of the offence of death due to a negligent act?” the court asked the police. On September 14, Gaganpreet Kaur, 38, was arrested by police as she was driving the BMW that rammed into Navjot Singh, 52, and his wife in Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan. Navjot Singh, a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, was killed after his motorcycle was struck while he was returning from the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara. His wife suffered grievous injuries in the crash. The FIR filed by the victim’s wife alleged that Gaganpreet deliberately avoided taking her injured husband to the nearest hospital despite her repeated requests. Instead, she took the victims to a hospital at least 19 km away from the crash site. Police concentrated their investigation on why the accused chose to admit the victims to a hospital so far away from the crash site, denying critical treatment to Singh and his wife. Gaganpreet was taken into custody on culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other charges and was sent to judicial custody by a Delhi court till September 27. She was granted bail on the last day of her custody. What Did Gaganpreet Kaur Say In Court? While seeking bail for the accused at Patiala House Court on Wednesday, Gaganpreet’s counsel argued that her car did not collide with the motorbike and that she took the victim to the hospital within 24 minutes of the incident. She stressed that the car hit the two-wheeler from behind but argued that the CCTV footage of the incident showed otherwise. “What actually happened is that the bike was hit by a bus… we saw the footage. Police are playing hide and seek; if they had CCTV in their favour, they would be playing it in front of the judge,” her advocate said in court. The public prosecutor, on the contrary, said the victim’s wife, who is the complainant in the case, never asked Kaur to take them to Venkateshwar Hospital but insisted on being taken to any nearby hospital. “Before Nulife Hospital, there were several hospitals, AIIMS, Safdarjung, Base Hospital, and others. Nulife gave information to the police about the accident and death at 4:21 PM, three hours after. This is a hospital of the accused’s relatives,” the prosecutor said.
