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Gaganpreet denies wrongdoing after BMW hit Navjot Singh near Delhi Cantonment, raising questions over hospital choice and police response.
The Delhi Police arrested Gaganpreet on Monday after an FIR was filed against her by the victim’s wife. (News18)
Delhi BMW Accident: Gaganpreet, the accused woman who was driving the BMW car, which hit and killed a Finance Ministry official in the national capital last evening, has denied any wrongdoing in the accident.
Navjot Singh (52), Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, succumbed to his injuries, while his wife suffered severe injuries after a BMW allegedly hit his motorcycle near Delhi Cantonment metro station on Ring Road on Sunday. T
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The Delhi Police arrested Gaganpreet on Monday after an FIR was filed against her by the victim’s wife.
Over the allegations that she transported the injured couple not to the nearest facility but to a hospital about 20 km away from the accident spot, the accused woman told the police that she took the couple to Nuelife Hospital as she had been there previously.
According to the police, she told investigators that her daughter had been treated during the pandemic at this particular facility, so she took the injured couple there.
However, as reported earlier, Gangpreet’s father, identified as Javinder Singh, served as a director of Nulife Hospital and Maternity Centre in GTB Nagar, and the police are considering this a possible reason for taking the injured couple here.
Additionally, over the claims of not making a PCR call after the accident, Gaganpreet told investigators that she was devastated by the incident and had thought others might have informed the police.
She revealed that there were five people— Gaganpreet, her husband, a six-year-old daughter, a four-year-old son, and a househelp—present in the luxury car during the time of the accident.
Gaganpreet said that after the crash, she left her husband and kids behind in the car and moved out with the intention to help the victims. She also claimed that the complainant was not in the right state of mind and was asking to be taken to a different hospital.
What’s The Case?
Police said the collision occurred around midday, when they received multiple calls about a traffic jam. On reaching the spot, officers found the BMW lying on its side and the motorcycle near the divider. Eyewitnesses confirmed that the luxury car, driven by a woman, had rammed into the motorcycle from behind. Singh was riding the bike with his wife seated behind him.
After the crash, the woman driver and her husband, who was also in the car, transported the injured couple not to the nearest facility but to Nuelife Hospital in GTB Nagar, about 17 km away, police said. Doctors later declared Singh dead, while his wife remains under treatment.
The BMW driver and her husband, residents of Gurugram, also sustained injuries in the accident. Meanwhile, the woman was discharged, but her husband is still under treatment. The Police will also record his statement.
Meanwhile, in the FIR, the victim’s wife had alleged that Gaganpreet deliberately avoided taking her injured husband to the nearest hospital despite her repeated requests.
“I repeatedly requested the lady (accused) to take my husband to the nearest hospital, my husband needs immediate first aid. But she deliberately did not take my husband to the nearest hospital and instead took him to a faraway hospital known to them. My husband had to wait too long on a stretcher there,” Singh’s wife stated in her complaint.
The couple’s son, Navnoor Singh also echoed similar sentiments, saying that his father’s life could have been saved had he been taken to a nearby hospital, rather than a facility nearly 20 km away.
September 15, 2025, 18:28 IST
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