• Girl held for youth’s death in bike crash
    Times of India | 17 October 2024
  • Kolkata: An 18-year-old girl, who was reportedly riding pillion with a youth when the bike met with an accident on the Hastings ramp of Vidyasagar Setu, has been charged with negligence causing his death. The woman was also injured in the accident that killed Nishant Chowdhury (22) around 3.30 am on Monday. Police arrested the girl, allegedly his girlfriend, on Tuesday afternoon following a written complaint from the Nishant’s mother.

    Nishant’s neighbour, Neel Malakar, said Nishant had received a call from the girl around 2 am when he was at a friend’s house in New Alipore.A couple of hours later, when someone rang Nishant, a medic at SSKM Hospital answered the phone and informed the person that he had met with an accident. Later, Nishant’s family learned that he had passed away at the hospital.

    The police said the accident had happened when Nishant, riding a scooter, lost control after a truck had bumped into it from behind. This sent him off the scooter and he hit the road, sustaining fatal injuries. The girl survived the accident with injuries. She has been remanded in police custody till Oct 25.
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