CHANDIGARH: Three people, including a police constable and a home guard volunteer, were killed on Friday when a speeding car rammed into a police 'naka' here at the Chandigarh-Zirakpur border, police said.
A 30-year-old on the way to his native place for Holi also died in the accident that happened in the early hours on Friday when vehicles were being checked at the police roadblock, they said.
Sources said that a case has been registered against the driver based on a CCTV footage at Sector 31 police station. The Chandigarh DGP Surendra Singh Yadav and SSP Kanwardeep Kaur personally visited the scene to assess the situation.
"At the time of the incident, checking of vehicles was going on at Chandigarh-Zirakpur barrier when this car came at high speed and hit them," Deputy Superintendent of Police Jaswinder Singh told PTI over the phone.
"A constable on duty at the 'naka', a home guard volunteer and one civilian have died in the incident," he said.
The speeding car, a brown Volkswagen Polo, came from the Zirakpur side when it rammed into the 'naka', hitting the cops and the civilian. The driver of the offending car has been arrested, he said.
The DSP said the 30-year-old man, whose car was also being checked at the 'naka', was standing outside his vehicle at the time of the incident.
The man who worked at a phone company in Gurugram was coming home to Mullanpur near Chandigarh.
All three died on the spot. The occupants of the Polo car were also injured in the accident. They were sent to a private hospital in a private car and ambulance passing nearby and the dead bodies were kept at the mortuary in GMCH-32 for autopsy.
Liquor bottles and packets of snacks were found in the car of the accused, the police said.
When asked if the accused car driver was inebriated at the time of the incident, the DSP said, "This is part of the investigation. We have registered a case and further investigations are on."
The latest incident comes close on the heels of another incident in which a 24-year-old man was killed on the spot and two women were injured allegedly after a Porsche car hit two scooters here.
(With inputs from ENS)