New Delhi, Nov 11 (IBNS): A 38-year-old woman died and her 13-year-old daughter received critical injury after their car was rammed by a vehicle driven by a woman in drunk condition, in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh around 11.30 pm Friday.
According to reports, the accused, 22-year-old Shivani Malik, was out for a joyride with three of her friends.
The four were on their way towards Gurgaon after a night out in Connaught Place, said police.
Police arrested the accused and her friends as well.
Malik has been booked under IPC sections 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 304 A (causing death by negligence).
The accused is a student of Delhi University and also works at a salon.
Malik was driving an S-Cross, which hit a Quanto, in which eight members of Sardana family were travelling.
Two brothers Sudhir Sardana and Vimal Sardana, along with their wives and children, were returning home after visiting a temple in Chhatarpur.
The family lives in Indra Nagar society in Adarsh Nagar in north Delhi.
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