Delhi Police on Tuesday informed that the preliminary autopsy report of the 20-year-old woman (Anjali Singh) who died after being dragged by a speeding car for 12 kilometres, shows there were no injury marks on her private parts indicating no sexual assault.
- Victim Anjali Singh's mother was among those who suspected that it may not just be a case of the car hitting her scooter and then dragging her for 13 km, causing her death.
"All injuries occurred due to blunt force impact and possibly with a vehicular accident and dragging. Also, the postmortem report indicates that there is no injury suggestive of sexual assault," said Sagar Preet Hooda, special commissioner of police (Law and Order).
- According to the postmortem report, the provisional cause of death is — shock and haemorrhage due to injury to head, spine, left femur, both lower limbs.
The autopsy was conducted by the medical board at Maulana Azad Medical College on Monday.
- The five men who were in the car have been arrested and charged with 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder', rash driving and causing death by negligence.
Investigators have found a key witness — 20-year-old Anjali, who worked as an event manager, was with a friend, Nidhi, when the Maruti Baleno car hit her scooter. The friend, uninjured, fled the scene but Anjali's leg got stuck in the car's axle, as per sources. Nidhi is now a crucial eyewitness, police said.
Angered by the horrific incident, people protested outside the Sultanpuri police station on Monday.
Mapping The Incident
Details of the accident emerged when cops retraced the route the victim had taken after leaving a hotel at 1.45 a.m. on January 1 after attending a New Year's Eve party. CCTV footage showed two women leaving the hotel on a scooter, not far from the accident site in Sultanpuri.
The men in the car have allegedly admitted that they were drunk. In panic after hitting the scooter, they sped away, unaware that a woman was being dragged along.
It was after the car had covered almost 13 km, dragging the woman through the streets, that one of the men noticed an arm sticking out at a U-turn at Kanjhawala. They stopped, her body fell off, and they drove away.
Further details awaited.
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