A 58-year-old man was killed by a speeding Delhi police vehicle being driven by a drunk police constable on a joyride with his friends, in Bhikaji Cama Place, south-west Delhi, early Monday morning, police said. The constable, who fled the scene after the accident, has been arrested, police added. The deceased was identified as Rajesh Gupta, a contractor who outsourced waiters and housekeeping staff to hotels across the city. He was returning home from the Leela Palace in Chanakyapuri, where he works, and was waiting for a cab outside the Bhikaji Cama Place Metro station at 3.20 am when the accident took place. According to eyewitnesses, the speeding police vehicle hit a grill fence outside the Metro station and then Gupta, who was crossing the road, before overturning and crashing into the divider. “We received a police control room call at 3.27 am at Sarojini Nagar police station from a passerby about the accident. A team rushed to the spot and found the deceased man and the damag...
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