Jeev Milkha gets clean chit in accident case

Range Rover was being driven by his driver on the day the mishap occurred

Chandigarh, January 21
The Chandigarh police has given a clean chit to international golfer Jeev Milkha Singh with the police establishing that his driver only drove the Range Rover on the day of accident. The complainant whose car met with the accident on October 31 had alleged that the person who was booked by the police and surrendered at the police station the next-day was not the one who drove Milkha’s vehicle at the time of accident, following which the case was re-investigated by the police and the accident scene was also recreated.

The incident took place when the car being driven by Sunita Malik collided with the car of Jeev Milkha, which was being driven by his driver, Ramkumar.

DSP Kamal Deep, who investigated the case, said that the CCTV footage installed at the traffic light point was verified and the accident scene was recreated. It was found that Ram Kumar was the one who was driving Milkha’s vehicle.

Ram Kumar was taken to the accident scene in November, last year, and asked to narrate the accident scene. The driver was questioned about how the accident took place and what did he do and where did he go after coming out of the vehicle. This was done to establish whether Ram Kumar had the same story to tell as was captured in the CCTV. Police officials said that the entire exercise was recorded in the same CCTV that was matched with the footage recorded on the day of incident.

The police investigation had revealed that Milkha’s Range Rover jumped the traffic signal while the Alto coming from the Panchkula side crossed the Zebra line when there was yellow light that led to the accident. Cases were registered against Ram Kumar and Sunita Malik.