Bail granted for BMW driver in Dhaula Kuan accident

he 19-page order, passed by judicial magistrate first class Ankit Garg, dismissed the prosecution’s core argument that Makkad’s conduct after the accident attracted Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to Gaganpreet Makkad, the accused driver in the Dhaula Kuan BMW crash that killed 52-year-old finance ministry employee Navjot Singh and severely injured his wife, while strongly criticising the conduct of an ambulance that arrived at the scene but did not assist the injured.

The prosecution had claimed Makkad deliberately took Navjot and his wife, Sandeep, to a hospital linked to her relatives instead of the nearest one, making the offence non-bailable.

The 19-page order, passed by judicial magistrate first class Ankit Garg, dismissed the prosecution’s core argument that Makkad’s conduct after the accident attracted Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The prosecution had claimed Makkad deliberately took Navjot and his wife, Sandeep, to a hospital linked to her relatives instead of the nearest one, making the offence non-bailable.

However, the court observed that CCTV footage contradicted this theory and instead showed that the BMW first crashed into a divider, overturned, and only then hit Navjot’s two-wheeler, which collided with a DTC bus. The bus did not stop after the accident.

The order noted: “An official ambulance, empty and immediately behind the vehicles involved, is seen arriving within 2 seconds. The ambulance, after watching the incident, stops at some distance; the driver and the paramedic rush towards the scene but, without offering any help or assistance, come back in a relaxed manner within 40 seconds.” The paramedics, it said, neither checked Navjot’s pulse nor administered first aid and left hastily despite the victim lying unconscious beneath the car.