Truck claims life of female bike taxi passenger in Mohali

A woman passenger of a Rapido bike taxi was killed after the two-wheeler was hit by a Verka truck near Chawla Chowk in Phase 7 on Sunday evening.

The victim, Parvinder Kaur, 25, was from Fatehabad, Haryana.

According to police, she was on her way to her hometown on Monday to attend her cousin’s wedding. For this, Kaur, who worked in a private company in Mohali, booked a bike taxi through Rapido.

Driver Gurjit Singh picked her up from Sector 80 and dropped her at the inter-state bus terminus in Sector 17, Chandigarh, from where her bus was scheduled to leave at 3.50 am.

But when the bike reached Chawla Chowk in Phase 7, a Verka truck coming from the Phase 3/5 light rammed into the two-wheeler.

Both Kaur and Singh were rushed to Civil Hospital in Phase 6, Mohali, by onlookers. But Kaur was declared dead. Singh remains under treatment.

The truck driver, identified as Salman Khan of Cholta Khurd, Mohali, was arrested.

He was booked under sections 106 (causing death by negligence), 281 (driving a vehicle or traveling on a public road in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life), 125 (A) (acting so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others), 324 (4) (causing mischief and thereby loss or damage to the amount of ₹20,000 and more, but less than ₹1 lakh) from the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Mataur Police Station.