NEW DELHI: Two days after a 34-year-old biker Sarthak Mattoo was allegedly run over by a Thar at southwest Delhi’s Rajokri Flyover, police have apprehended the driver of the vehicle. Police said the Karnataka-registered vehicle belonged to a private company based in Bengaluru.The SUV had been leased to Sagar Saha from Bihar, who is employed with the company and posted in Bengaluru. At the time of the accident Thursday morning, Saha told police, his friend Apurv Singh was test-driving the Thar from Gurgaon to Dwarka Expressway and back. Saha was in the front passenger seat with Singh.Singh, 30, a software tester from Ghaziabad who lives in Gurgaon, was traced and apprehended. Police said it is unclear if he was intoxicated when he ran over 34-year-old Mattoo around 6.30am Thursday. Singh’s blood samples have been sent for tests.Sarthak’s life cut short two days before b’dayPolice said Saha and Singh were contacted after obtaining the ownership details of the vehicle and they joined the investigation. “There is no information to suggest that they were planning to flee or attempting to conceal evidence,” a senior police officer said. The vehicle has been seized.Sarthak, who worked with an event management company, was on his way to an assignment in Noida from his Gurgaon home at the time of the accident. The SUV hit Sarthak from behind before making a sharp cut, causing him to skid and come under its wheels. He was to turn 34 on Saturday.Surender Mattoo told media that a passerby had found his son lying on the flyover on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway and contacted the last number called, which was his office. “Once the car ran him over, they could have taken him to the hospital,” Surender said, showing the scratched helmet that his son was reportedly wearing at the time of the accident. Police rushed Sarthak to a private hospital in Vasant Kunj, but he could not be saved.Surender further questioned the reliability of the blood test two days after the accident. “It is Sarthak’s birthday today. This was not an accident. It was a hit-and-run, an act of killing a man,” he said, demanding strict police action.
