A Delhi court has granted bail to the woman accused of driving the BMW car that killed a finance ministry official on September 14, saying that the evidence at this stage does not support the police’s claim of culpable homicide, Live Law reported on Tuesday.
Culpable homicide refers to an act committed with the intention of causing death or with the knowledge that the act is likely to cause death.
On September 14, Navjot Singh, a deputy secretary in the finance ministry’s economic affairs department, was killed when a BMW vehicle collided with the motorbike he was riding near the Delhi Cantonment metro station. His wife was injured.
On September 15, the police arrested Gaganpreet Kaur, who was allegedly driving the car.
Her husband, Parikshit Makkar, and their two children we