Police identifies 2 bikers for BSES engineer’s death

New Delhi: A day after a BSES engineer named Abhimanyu Singh, died in an accident after being allegedly chased by bikers while they had gone for a raid against illegal power thefts at the Jhuljhuli village in Jaffarpur Kalan, the Delhi police have registered a case of culpable homicide and have identified two men who were allegedly involved in threatening the driver of the car that had met with the accident.

The police say that one of them was identified as Fauzi and the other was also identified, will also be arrested soon. They have detained several others on suspicion.

However, police say that they had not recieved an official complaint from the BSES officials regarding a physical attack. Infact, in their statement, the injured BSES officials say that their driver Wasim, had started speeding when he saw two men from the village riding beside their vehicle on a motorbike. The statement says that they could not hear what the bikers were saying but panicked after seeing their gestures. According to them, the car had hit the tree after the driver lost control of the vehicle while driving at a high speed. Efforts are being made to identify the bikers.

DCP Southwest Surender Kumar said, that the local police station sent a team of 26 personnel led a sub-inspector who controlled the crowd that had gathered around the BSES team. “There were no incidents of violence till then. However, we are probing into the allegations about men chasing the BSES vehicle on bikes which led to the accident.” Kumar said.