Delhi crash kills senior Finance official, BMW driver charged

A senior Finance Ministry official was killed and his wife seriously injured after a BMW struck their motorcycle near the Delhi Cantonment metro station on Sunday afternoon, and the couple’s relatives and eyewitnesses have alleged the car’s occupants ferried the injured to a distant hospital instead of a nearby trauma centre. The crash occurred around 1 to 1.30 pm on Ring Road near Metro Pillar No. 67, authorities said.

The victim was identified as 52 year old Navjot Singh, a deputy secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs. His wife, Sandeep Kaur, suffered multiple fractures and head injuries and remains hospitalized. Police said the luxury car, driven by a woman, rammed the two wheeler from behind; the BMW reportedly overturned and came to rest on the central verge. Eyewitnesses and labourers at the scene said many bystanders filmed the aftermath while some helped remove children and other occupants from the car.

In a First Information Report filed by Sandeep Kaur and quoted by police, she said she repeatedly begged the BMW occupants to take her husband to the nearest hospital because he was unconscious, but they instead took the couple to a facility in GTB Nagar that...