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Woman Car Driver Crushes Man To Death In Delhi

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Apr, 2015 11:20 AM

A 27-year-old woman was arrested for mowing down a man under the wheels of her car in the national capital, police said on Thursday.

Manisha Grover, who was learning how to drive, suddenly lost control of the car and hit 40-year-old Pramod Kumar in west Delhi's Subhash Nagar area on Wednesday.

After the incident, Grover herself took the victim to the nearby Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and got him admitted, and left the place without giving any information to the hospital authorities.

The man died around 11.50 a.m. on Thursday, police told IANS.

Police later traced the woman through CCTV footage.

"The female driver was arrested for causing death due to negligence. She has accepted that she was involved in the accident," police said.

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