The 21-year-old driver of the SUV that claimed the lifetime of a 15-year-old lady close to Botanical Garden, Dhanas, on Tuesday, was arrested on Thursday, police mentioned.

The accused driver, Surbhi, 21, hails from Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, and is presently staying at Omaxe City, New Chandigarh.

She was driving the Tata Nexon that had hit the sufferer, Lavanya, a resident of Nayagaon, whereas she was crossing the street close to the backyard on Tuesday.

According to police, Surbhi is a second-year scholar of MA at DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh. She was instantly granted bail.

Lavanya had gone to satisfy her pal and was crossing the street when she was hit by Surbhi’s automobile. The teenager was tossed up within the air, earlier than she crashed on the windshield of the car. She had suffered extreme head accidents, a damaged spinal wire and a broken eye, and had succumbed to her accidents at PGIMER on Wednesday.

An eyewitness had knowledgeable the police that the SUV driver didn’t blow the horn and hit the lady whereas she was crossing the street.

Surbhi is now going through a case underneath Sections 279 (rash driving), 304-A (inflicting loss of life by negligence) and 337 (inflicting harm by act endangering life or private security of others) of the Indian Penal Code.

Police mentioned Surbhi had taken the sufferer to the hospital after the accident.

Before her arrest, on Thursday morning, Lavanya’s members of the family and relations a held a protest outdoors the Sarangpur police station, accusing police of intentionally delaying the accused’s arrest, .

Victim needed to donate her eyes

Lavanya, a scholar of the Sector-44 authorities college, had pledged to donate her eyes a number of years again, however her eyes have been broken within the accident, in line with her mom, Nancy, who’s employed privately.

“She wanted to be an officer and was a very sincere child,” mentioned the distraught mom.

Lavanya is survived by her mom and a 10-year-old brother. Her father lives individually.